Marriage with Navarre might push Anjou across the mountains; the holy war might lift it across the sea.

Who was the 'yellow-haired King of the West' whom they of the East foretold, if not her goodly son?
Should God be thwarted by a ----?
She hesitated not for a word, but I hesitate.
If the Queen-Mother was afraid of anything in the world, it was of the devil in the race she had mothered.

It had thwarted her in their father, but it cowed her in her sons.

Most of all, I think, in Richard she feared it, because Richard could be so cold.

A flamy devil as in young Henry, or a brimstone devil as in Geoffrey of Brittany, or a spitfire devil as was John's--with these she could cope, her lord had had them all.