Young Bess
“‘Surely you’ll throw in Anne of Cleves?’ ‘That too is said,’ said Russell stiffly, ‘and the Lady Jane Grey has also been mentioned. It makes little odds which of them it is, since all are royal; except that, naturally, the King’s sisters are the most royal of all.’‘Father Russell, you are very suspicious of me. Who’s been telling you these tales?’Father Russell would not say, except that those who had done so were the Admiral’s very good friends and advised him, as he himself did, ‘to make no s...uit of marriage that way,’ as though it were too dangerous even to repeat the names of the prospective brides. But Tom showed no such caution.‘Even a King’s sisters may marry,’ was his modest answer, ‘and better for them to marry within the realm than outside it; so why might not I, or any other man, raised by the King their father, marry one of them?’It sounded a fair and honest question. But Father Russell’s face was nearly as long as his beard as he replied to it.MoreLess
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