H. C. Bailey

Name: The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover
Author: H. C. Bailey

The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

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“The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover”, published in 1910, is a work by H. C. Bailey. It explores elements such as Peter Coffin, Elizabeth and lord.

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ Lady Elizabeth, what mercy should you hope of a man who have none for him? Your—your swift grace—your body of alabaster—the flame of your eyes—the dark treasury of your hair—and withal the keen right manly wit of you—you make a man mad with love.”
The girl rose with studied movements of allure. Her lips were parted in a subtle smile. Yet she could not check the eager beat of her bosom. “Now you play the pirate indeed. You come upon me under a false flag. My Lord High Admiral flies the banner of love:” she gave an excited laugh. “A lion soupirant! Nay, my lord, it serves not. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ The mariners all about the coast will rise and rally to me when I raise thy standard. The time's ripe. All the realm is sick with discontent of the Lord Protector and his greedy crew and the cold pedant of a child whom they call King. If thou ride through the land like a queen, promising the good laws of thy father and his strong hand of rule, there is none who can stand against thee. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ The girl rose and made a stately curtsey. “This is kind, my lord,” she said demurely. “But, indeed, you are ever so kind that I love you as though you were——,” she paused—“my uncle in blood, not only in name, my lord.”
“Nay, faith, I thank God I am no such thing.”
“I hope your lordship has more to thank God for. Prithee, were it so hard a fate to be kin to me?”
“Most desperate hard, fair lady. If a man were content to be thy kinsman, he were no man.”
“God save us all!” the plump matron cried. “Never a woman would doubt the Lord Admiral is man enough.” ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ At the last moment Captain Coffin shipped his oars. They sped through the foaming eddies, and in the broken water below were swung tossing wildly broadside to the tide before he could get his oars out again. A perilous moment of hard pulling, and, wet to the skin, they were in smooth water.
At the first chance Captain Coffin ran the boat ashore, and, springing out, dragged Elizabeth on to the mud. The boat he dispatched with a kick to betray what it might down stream. He gripped the girl's hand like a child's, and hauled her on through the night till they came to scattered houses. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ Well, why was my lord in such a hurry? Why was he in a passion to make sure of her all on a sudden? Plainly he meant no less than marriage. He wanted to show her and boast of her as his wife. Doubtless my Lord Admiral was great enough already. The sailor folk all round the coasts held him only less than the King. But if he were wed to the King's daughter, there would be something of royalty itself about him, and when the King should die he might be royal enough to hold the first place of all, ay, to venture for the throne. For he was a man to venture much. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ The boy King, her brother, had always his soldierly uncle, Hertford, and the demure energy of Lisle, on either side him, like conjurers working an automaton. Elizabeth saw her sister, the little sour woman, only from afar, and at the earliest Mary fled away to her own house that her eyes might not be offended by the sight of her enemies, the heretics, in power. There was no friend, no ally for Elizabeth. The widowed Queen, Catharine Parr, was always kind enough and gay now that she was a widow, but the girl found her of no more use than a pet cat. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ The next day Elizabeth was taken back to Enfield. Her brother bade her a very tender farewell. From no one came a word of censure. But by the haste to banish her she knew that the wooing of the Admiral was known, and would not be permitted. She bore her brother no malice for it; she had none for the lords who governed through him. They fought for themselves even as she. But she waited eagerly and anxiously for the Admiral to come. If he were a man he would bid her defy them all in his arms. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ It is not for a gentleman to play at amours with the Lady Elizabeth.”
“Ha! Who plays the spy, then?” the Admiral flushed.
“My lord, my lord, you know not what you say,” Lisle cried. “The King himself complains of you.”
“Oh, the saintly boy! Prithee, what is it to him if I would wed his sister? She will have a man for her husband, and——”
“Wed!” Hertford broke in. “Beshrew your folly! Did you think of marriage? This is the very madness of treason.” ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ Hertford, Seymour, Lisle and the rest—the boy would only be a puppet for them, to be gripped and used by the strongest.
Now—now she understood the Admiral's hurry to woo her. He must have known that the King lay near to death. He meant to make sure of her betimes. He saw that the man who had her to wife would have a mastering prestige. He was Edward's uncle by blood, but his brother Hertford had that title too, and more fame. As Elizabeth's husband, he could boast the very glamour of the blood royal. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ Day after day went by and the palace at Enfield was peaceful as the village about it. The girl began to feel the sting of shame. My lord was pleased to grow cold as quick as he had grown hot. He held her worth no risk or pains. So she fretted herself till in the sunshine of a gay spring afternoon came Catharine the Queen. The simple woman had put off her mourning. Her face was broadly radiant. She kissed Elizabeth lavishly. After greetings—Elizabeth was punctilious, and something had made Catharine exuberant—“Guess now, child; nay, but thou'lt never guess,” she cried in one breath. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ The girl darted a keen glance at her, She was all nods and smiles. The Admiral flung back his fine shoulders and laughed. “Mrs. Ashley hath too much kindness for me, like every good woman.”
“Why, my lord, that sentence presses me shrewdly,” the girl cried. “Which am I then—over fond for you or not too good?”
“My Lady Elizabeth, no man would account you a good woman. For you are a fair goddess, who need not be kind to any man.”
“I will take your counsel, my lord;” Elizabeth made a curtsey. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ The girl was aware of a keen craft in her, of a fierce will, against which they were nothing. A haughty pride in herself, stronger for being hidden from all the world, bade her believe that she would know how to be a glorious Queen. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ She stared at him a moment, fighting her way back from a world of eager hope and plan to the urgent reality. “I can do anything a man can do,” she cried fiercely.
“Now that's not nature nor loving,” said he; and they mounted and rode hard over silent roads.
Some time after midnight they were back at Enfield. Enfield was unalarmed, but Parry and Ashley, roused to receive them, came white and shivering. At them Captain Coffin shook a stubby brown finger. “Your master that hired you is gaoled,” said he. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ King Love hath no loyalty of mine. I swear I like you better when you are your true born self—when your eyes say: 'all men are one to me and all women nought.'”
“And all are nought to me save one, who is all the world and my heaven. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ The boy was away to his audience chamber and summoned Hertford and Lisle. He feared Hertford, who was by his father's will the Lord Protector, and the best soldier in England besides. He liked Lisle, who was adroit and flattered him. Lisle was prompt and Hertford kept him waiting. “My uncle is so zealous in business that I fear for his health,” the boy said. “And certainly it is well beseeming that youth should wait upon age.” ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ Their pleasure is taken. See, my Lord Lisle delivered me a letter;” she fumbled in her ample bosom and gave Elizabeth the paper.
The girl read it. In correct phrase her brother desired his well-beloved sister to honour the Lady Catharine and the Lord Admiral at their house, if so it should accord with her pleasure. “By your leave, madam—this needs to be answered. Please you I may withdraw.” She hurried from the room. She needed to be alone.
When she was alone, bolted in her own chamber, she yielded to a frenzy of anger, beating herself and tearing her bed and crying out wildly.... ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Lonely Queen — II. Her First Lover (1910)

“ Ashley struck in: “May I serve your lordship and your lordship's gentleman with some entertainment?”
“Ha! with my lady's leave”—the Admiral recollected his companion—“let me present Captain Peter Coffin, chief of the mariners of the west, a very sturdy pirate.”
Peter Coffin rolled forward and knelt awkwardly and kissed Elizabeth's hand, and stared up at her with bright puckered eyes. He said nothing.
“Away with thee, Peter. Let him smell flagons, Mrs. Ashley. We sailor men must be fed with wine or love. Else are we dangerous.”
“Now, fie, my lord, you boast to frighten us poor women.” Mrs. ”

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