H. C. Bailey

Name: The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go
Author: H. C. Bailey

The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

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“The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go”, published in 1910, is a work by H. C. Bailey. It explores elements such as Gardiner, Elizabeth and Catharine.

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ Mary's Spanish blood kept hot the memory of her mother's wrongs, and she missed no chance to make the child of the low-born, shameless woman suffer. Elizabeth, cunning by nature and trained by the court's cruelty to the inscrutable craft of an unhappy child, endured everything, betrayed nothing. But she, too, forgot nothing; and keener, subtler than Mary, she saw everything. Mary, her rival, her foe, in consort with Gardiner, who was of all the men about the King the bitterest against the German Queen—the child was quick to imagine danger as any time-serving courtier. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ Elizabeth had never enjoyed childhood. She had never dared be naughty for the pure delight of naughtiness. Disobedience of any one of the unalterable laws made to hold her in subjection meant that she would be put to shame before the underlings of the court. But if there was something to be gained by disobedience, she was always ready for the risk. And now she needed to know what would happen in the privy garden: whether Catharine was to be Queen, how the King felt for her and she for the King. The unhappy child knew that she must spy out everything to keep herself safe. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ The German Queen, friend of her friends, her party, her faith, was to be banished. What triumph, and what opportunity for those of Gardiner's mind, who fought to reconcile the King with Spain and Rome and make him disown the daughter who was the quarrel incarnate. If Catharine Howard were the new Queen, a soft round minx all prettiness, if she were the tool of Gardiner——. The child felt herself fighting desperately for life, honour, royalty. There were always strange threats echoing through the court. She might be thrown into a sickly prison. She might be married to a low-born fool. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ The child came from behind the tapestry, saying solemnly, “Do you like Dr. Gardiner?”
Catharine screamed, and started back with her hand to her throat. “Oh, by'r Lady! Good lack, how ghostly! Oh, why do you frighten me, child? Why are you hiding there? What have you heard?”
Elizabeth looked as if she would cry. “I want you. Every one was hating me, and you are always kind. I came here to find you. Then Dr. Gardiner came. He always frightens me. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ You know her best as the Queen of that great age of England which shattered the empire of Spain and won for the English blood and English ideals the heritage of the New World and changed the future of humanity. In the triumph of that fight we see the fierce, keen face of Elizabeth, and that cold Tudor craft of hers and the vehement will. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ But once out of sight, Elizabeth ran fast to the privy garden.
To a child's mind that privy garden was a very castle of mystery. Through the scrollwork of the gates one might see strange devices wrought in the ground with stones of many colours, likewise a fountain which spouted clear water and transformed it into a flood of wine and molten gold as it fell. There were gilt statues too, and strange flowers and trees. The high red walls on their outer side bore great plums and apricots. What wondrous fruit should grow within! ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ The child stood up. “I shall not. I shall not love any one. I do not want any one to love me.” She stalked out of the room.
The Queen tossed her head. “Little snake!” she said, and turned again to her dresses. But the tearful Lotta gave a sob under her breath, and murmured, “The poor little maid!”
Elizabeth went slowly through the blotches of light and shade in the palace corridor. You see her a long wisp of a girl, her red mane tumbling over her face as she walks with head bent, her pale high brow furrowed across and across, and her thin lips twitching. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ They must have a man like thee to rule them.”
“I will whip them,” said the little boy solemnly. “I will scold them like the King.”
Elizabeth nodded and smiled to Barnaby: “Let me in, good Barnaby, prithee, let me in.” She clasped all her mannikins to her bosom in one hand and thrust the other through the bars and patted his shoulder and stroked him. “Art a dear fellow, Barnaby.” She made eyes and smiled and her lean fingers caressed him. “I have been always kind to thee, thou knowest. Thou art so big and strong and bold. Alack!”—she became mightily plaintive—“it is I who most need kindness.” ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ Thomas Cromwell, the Protestant Machiavelli, had lured the King into marriage with her to bind him to the German Protestants and the enemies of Spain and the Pope. And behold, the woman was plain, and Cromwell had committed the sin without forgiveness. The King cast him off in righteous wrath and his enemies destroyed him. How long would Anne of Cleves wear the King's ring? There was no fault in her, no venom could imagine any fault in the stolid woman, save ugliness. But her husband was Henry VIII.
Mary and Elizabeth, the sisters, were dowered with their mothers' mutual hate. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ Barnaby put his head on one side and pretended to ogle her. “Art a sweet lady,” he said sentimentally. “But for honesty—God save thee!”
“I want them!” the little boy cried, holding out his hands for the mannikins.
“Good Barnaby, let me in. I am so lonely. There is no one here will play. Ah, I would not be cruel to thee.”
“Good lack, fair lady, if I were thy whipping-boy—“he wriggled his back comically—“I should need live my life standing.”
“I would never let thee suffer for my sake, Barnaby,” Elizabeth said mournfully. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ First of all you must meet her, a sad cunning child in the maze of that cruel court which Henry VIII. made for his greedy passion of mastery. And first and last, by fate or her own proud choice, she stands lonely for the honour of England.
THE palace of Placentia glowed crimson above the broad river. On the lawn a child sat, all red hair and brown frock. A barge of purple and gold was turning against the glittering eddies of the ebb to make the palace stairs. The child started up and revealed herself thin, too small yet for her bones. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ Elizabeth stood with her bony hands clenched, glaring and flushed. Gardiner looked back at her. She flung round and pretended to be smelling a rose. They passed out of sight and an iron gate clanged. The rose bush broke in her hand. She started away and stamped her foot. She thrust her hand into her eyes and gave a sob and struck herself.... Fighting hard to be calm and proud, she made for the palace.
On her way she saw Gardiner walking the lawn with her sister Mary. Their voices were very busy. She hurried on, and her quick eyes glowed and flashed. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ Gardiner frowned at her. The King gave a brutal laugh: “Why, Kate, say—'sirrah priest, my lord is well rid of a rogue.'”
Gardiner's dark eyes grew fierce and strove to command her: “I pray the lady Catharine, if she hath not good cause to speak me fair.”
Elizabeth started. She knew well what he meant by his threatening eyes and voice. He menaced Catharine with the discovery of her coquetries with Culpepper. How would the woman answer? Would she play a weak game and let him win after all? ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ Get you gone and take heed to yourself. Do not force yourself on women of high estate, if you would keep your skin whole. And hark ye, Master Culpepper: a loose tongue may loose your head from your shoulders. I have done. If I do not see you or hear of you again, it will be well for you.”
There was silence. When Culpepper spoke again, his voice was chastened. “Why, then—why, what an alarm is this because a man pays his duty to a fair lady?”
“If you have no wit, sirrah, be taught by those who have. Away with you! Mistress Catharine bids you trouble her no more.” ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ The Prince's royalty may not company with the Lady Elizabeth.”
Elizabeth rose to her lean height. “Oh, is Dr. Gardiner my brother's lord? Dr. Gardiner would make himself King.”
“Dr. Gardiner obeys the King's will”—he smiled at her—“which is dread to any who dares deny it.” He walked on and took the little boy's hand and drew him from Elizabeth. “You will be safe, sir, in the privy garden. Come, Master Barnaby.” The Prince stumbled at his side, holding away from him. Master Barnaby, the Prince's whipping-boy, made a funny face at Elizabeth and shambled after them. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ Gardiner.”
“Barnaby, Barnaby, fat face Barnaby,” Elizabeth called from the gate.
“How now? Which of my sweethearts calls?” The whipping-boy looked round him with a grin. “Oh! see the noble lady, sir—like a falcon poking out of a cage.” He made a mock bow to Elizabeth's hawk face behind the bars.
“Elizabeth!” the little Prince cried. “I want Elizabeth!” and he ran as well as his unsteady legs could to the gate. Barnaby shambled after.
“See! I've brought my men, Edward.” She held up two of the gaudy wooden mannikins. “They will not heed me at all. They are naughty and froward. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — I. The Way She Should Go (1910)

“ They ask me to punish them so that they can be happy again.” He displayed the wooden men with their limbs bent into attitudes of humble prayer.
“Oh, Edward, how grand! Thou hast mastered them mightily. In truth, dear, thou wast born to be a king.” ”

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