To Ruin a Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery At Queen Elizabeth I's Court
“Catherine’s Well the following morning.
This track was not flooded, for it wound uphill onto the flanks of the Malverns, that long range of hills which stands proud of the lower lands to east and west of it, like a huge, petrified roller in a sea otherwise calm. There was a gale blowing, with fierce rain squalls, but they were not like the savage cloudburst which had imprisoned us in Isabel’s Tower and the thick mantles with which Lady Thomasine had so obligingly presented Brockley and myself w...ere an adequate protection. The previous afternoon, Brockley and I seized the chance to buy things in Ledbury and we had at last acquired some genuinely sturdy boots. I had also bought some leggings to protect myself from the stirrup leathers while riding astride. Barker was already well equipped. We kept our heads lowered, and rode resolutely on.
I might have forgotten Barker’s name when we first got to Ledbury, but I could recall what Lady Thomasine had said about St. Catherine’s Well. It was on the Malverns, a few miles north of a landmark called Herefordshire Beacon.MoreLess
This track was not flooded, for it wound uphill onto the flanks of the Malverns, that long range of hills which stands proud of the lower lands to east and west of it, like a huge, petrified roller in a sea otherwise calm. There was a gale blowing, with fierce rain squalls, but they were not like the savage cloudburst which had imprisoned us in Isabel’s Tower and the thick mantles with which Lady Thomasine had so obligingly presented Brockley and myself w...ere an adequate protection. The previous afternoon, Brockley and I seized the chance to buy things in Ledbury and we had at last acquired some genuinely sturdy boots. I had also bought some leggings to protect myself from the stirrup leathers while riding astride. Barker was already well equipped. We kept our heads lowered, and rode resolutely on.
I might have forgotten Barker’s name when we first got to Ledbury, but I could recall what Lady Thomasine had said about St. Catherine’s Well. It was on the Malverns, a few miles north of a landmark called Herefordshire Beacon.MoreLess
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