Ma foi! I know not what the world is coming to, when young maids may flout their elders.

I wonder that you do not correct her, my fair lord." "Nay, my heart's comfort, I never raised hand to woman yet, and it would be a passing strange thing if I began on my own flesh and blood.

It was a woman's hand which cast this lime into mine eyes, and though I saw her stoop, and might well have stopped her ere she threw, I deemed it unworthy of my knighthood to hinder or balk one of her sex." "The hussy!" cried Lady Loring clenching her broad right hand.

"I would I had been at the side of her!" "And so would I, since you would have been the nearer me my own.

But I doubt not that you are right, and that Maude's wings need clipping, which I may leave in your hands when I am gone, for, in sooth, this peaceful life is not for me, and were it not for your gracious kindness and loving care I could not abide it a week.