"Mama, I should not like to have the world for my own," added Alfred, "if there were such wicked people in it; they might come and smother me in my little bed."
1. Prince Henry and Chief Justice Gascoigne. A.D. 1405.
2. Battle of Agincourt. October 24th, 1415.
3. Earl of Warwick presenting Henry VI. to the Parliament. A.D. 1422.
4. Joan of Arc before Orleans. May 8th, 1429.
5. Death of the Duke of Clarence. A.D. 1478.
6. Murder of the Princes in the Tower. A.D. 1483.
CHAPTER VII.
The children never failed to join their mamas at the usual time, and sometimes were almost inclined to believe it was dark, and time to shut the shutters, earlier than the ladies wished. This evening they had a lesson in good humor, for a visitor stayed so long that the period for commencing arrived and passed, without his giving any signs of leaving; but he was scarcely down stairs before they began to arrange themselves round the fire.