“Father Vincent said, when he married us, that you and I were thenceforth one, my dearest!” was the pleasing response.
“What in the name of wonder I ever wished to marry you for—!”
“I will leave you to consider it, my darling, and tell me when I come back,” said Osbert, shutting the door and whistling the Agnus as he went up Castle Street.
“Well, if you aren’t the worst, wickedest, aggravatingest man that ever worrited a poor helpless woman,” commented Anania, as she turned on her uneasy couch, “my new boots are made of pear jelly!”
But it did not occur to her to inquire of what the woman was made who habitually tormented that easy-tempered man, nor how much happier her home might have been had she learnt to bridle her own irritating tongue.
Note 1. Close Roll, 32 Henry Third. About 5 pence per loaf according to modern value.
Note 2. The Bishop of Lincoln who sat on the Council of Oxford was Robert de Chesney. He died on January 26th, 1168, and was succeeded by the King’s natural son, Geoffrey Plantagenet, a child of only nine years of age. Such were the irregularities in the “apostolical succession” during the “ages of faith!”
Note 3. Even Wycliffe taught that no man could know whether he were elected to salvation or not.
Note 4. The Blue Boar in Saint Aldate’s Street really belongs to a later date than this.