Yet who were we to question His decrees of which we knew neither the
beginning nor the finish?
Anyway, I was glad I was not dead, for now that all was over I trembled
and felt afraid, which I had never done during the fighting, even when
my hour seemed very near.
Lastly there was this high-born lady, Blanche Aleys, with whom fortune
had thrown me so strangely that day. Those blue eyes of hers had pierced
my heart like darts, and do what I would I might not rid my mind of the
thought of her, or my ears of the sound of her soft voice, while her
kisses seemed still to burn upon my lips. It wrung me to think that
perhaps I should never see her again, or that if I did I might not speak
with her, being so far beneath her in condition, and having already
earned the wrath of her father, and, as I guessed, the jealousy of that
scented cousin of hers whom they said the King loved like a brother.
What had my mother told me? To leave this place and go to London, there
to find my uncle, John Grimmer, goldsmith and merchant, who was my
godfather, and to ask him to take me into his business.
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