“"You, Bishop Gardiner, will shrive Lord de Winter." "Can we not just get on with it," the king grumbled. The Chapel Royal was chilly at midnight, and his leg ached damnably. "Your grace cannot think that I would allow these two young people to enter into matrimony without observing all the proprieties," Thomas Cranmer said, just the barest touch of censure in his voice. "Particularly under the circumstances that have brought us here tonight. I have, after all, waived the banns." "Oh, very w...ell!" the king consented irritably, "but do not dally." He glowered at Nyssa. "Remember, madame, you have far more important sins to tell this priest than the envy of another's gown, or an unkind word to one of your fellow maids. And be quick about it!" Bliss clung nervously to her husband's arm. Ohh, why had she not listened to her brother-in-law and to her mother! If she had not insisted upon chaperoning Nyssa to court, none of this would be happening. Her family would never let her forget it, particularly her husband.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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