My Lady of Cleves: Anne of Cleves
““Are you so frightened of her?” Anne asked compassionately.
“So dependent on her,” explained the girl, with a gamin pout which, in spite of her obvious breeding, savored of the backstairs.
“My father was only a younger son and my mother died.” Unimportant as she was, she knew quite well why her family wanted this new queen out of the way; but they were wrong about her being a boorish, strait-laced Lutheran. Katherine heard the Duchess’s strident voice calling to her from the end of the ...gallery; but there was something she had to say. “Madam, don’t let them make you any different. Please, stay just as you are!” The words were spoken with such intensity that she might have been pleading for something affecting her own life. And in saying them, she gave Anne back some of her lost assurance—just as her broken warnings gave her food for conjecture.
As soon as Anne was alone with Dorothea she told her to leave all the dresses.MoreLess
“So dependent on her,” explained the girl, with a gamin pout which, in spite of her obvious breeding, savored of the backstairs.
“My father was only a younger son and my mother died.” Unimportant as she was, she knew quite well why her family wanted this new queen out of the way; but they were wrong about her being a boorish, strait-laced Lutheran. Katherine heard the Duchess’s strident voice calling to her from the end of the ...gallery; but there was something she had to say. “Madam, don’t let them make you any different. Please, stay just as you are!” The words were spoken with such intensity that she might have been pleading for something affecting her own life. And in saying them, she gave Anne back some of her lost assurance—just as her broken warnings gave her food for conjecture.
As soon as Anne was alone with Dorothea she told her to leave all the dresses.MoreLess
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