Grisly Grisell Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: as she sprang off her horse with little aid, "Lives my wench still?" "Yes, madam, she lives, and the leech trusts that she will yet be healed." "Ah! Methou... more »ght you would have sent to me if aught further had befallen her. Be that as it may, no doubt you have given the malapert boy his deserts." "I hope I have, madam," began the Earl. "I kept him in close ward while she was in peril of death, but " A fresh bugle blast interrupted him, as there clattered through the resounding gate the other troop, at sight of whom the Lady of Whit- burn drew herself up, redoubling her grim dignity, and turning it into indignation as a young page rushed forward to meet the newcomers, with a cry of "Father! Lord Father, come at last;" then composing himself, doffed his cap and held the stirrup, then bent a knee for his father's blessing. "You told me, Lord Earl, the mischievous, murderous fellow was in safe hold," said the lady, bending her dark brows. "While the maid was in peril," hastily answered Salisbury. "Pardon me, madam, my Countess will attend you." The Countess's high rank and great power were impressive to the Baroness of Whitburn, who bent in salutation, but almost her first words were, "Madam, you at least will not let the murderous traitors of Somerset and the Queen prevail over the loyal friends of York and the nation." "There is happily no murder in the case. Praise be to the saints," said Countess Alice, "your little maid " "Ay, that's what they said as to the poor good Duke Humfrey," returned the irate lady; "but that you, madam, the good-sister of the noble York, should stand up for the enemies of him, and the friends of France, is more than a plain North Country woman like me can understand. And there —there, turning round upon the steep steps, there is...« less