The Virgin Queen''s Daughter by Ella March Chase ppt

[...]... Father gathered me in his arms; I loved the smell of him: ink and leather and books The barge cut through the water until a cool shadow fell over us, the curtain wall surrounding the mighty fortress As we drew abreast of the Tower wharf to land, I could see the White Tower peeping over the top of the walls, its turrets gleaming in the sun Thoughts of the princess fled as Father told me how William the. .. blobs, another with white dots and colored circles of varying sizes Father explained they were made by the great scientist Mercator, one globe mapping the earth and the other charting the heavens I might have remained transfixed for hours, picking out constellations Father had shown me or attempting to puzzle out how England the greatest country in the world—could appear so small compared with the sprawling... between the stone lions that guarded Calverley’s gatehouse, then into the main courtyard framed by turrets and great redbrick walls Hearing the commotion, Father and I crossed to the library window The stranger’s livery was unrecognizable, dark with filth from the road, the cloth threadbare beside Father’s well-garbed servants in their silver and blue He was so thin that Mother would have ordered the man... you climbed to their tops I imagined you could see all the way to the ocean Yet the barge we had boarded in Reading could not take us all the way to our destination, Father had warned me Even the queen herself could not pass London Bridge without disembarking from the royal barge Travelers had to cross the road leading to London Bridge on foot, then board another vessel to take them farther downriver,... Prepress/Printer’s Proof TA eVirgin Queen’s DaugA ter 23 My mother carried me through the gate the yeoman guard held open, then back to the privy chambers Father’s friend had assigned to us She plopped me down upon the tester bed, a tearful Eppie in her wake I caught Eppie’s hand The bear did not eat me! I only went to the garden to see the princess.” Eppie looked as if she would rather I had visited the bear “I told... the stairs, not www.ThreeRiversPress.com WBRT: Prepress/Printer’s Proof 24 Ella March Chase even featherhead Arabella to bring me a candle when night blacked out all light I squeezed beneath the bed to hide when the room grew darkest I writhed in my hiding place, stomach aching as if I had taken one of the fevers mother dreaded, my beloved gown clinging, sticky with sweat in spite of the chill in the. .. Prepress/Printer’s Proof 16 Ella March Chase to the apothecary to refill Mother’s medicine chest with the herbs and physics people at Calverley would need, so this was a day I had Father to myself At first glance Dr Dee’s house seemed cobbled together like the buildings father sometimes helped me make out of playing cards Bright new wattle and daub sections leaned so precariously against the older part of the house that... returning to quiet Lincolnshire Mother and Eppie talked themselves hoarse with the other ladies in the Lieutenant’s solar, but even the most scandalous gossip the private sitting room could hold did not tempt me from my post at the window seat near the chamber door I curled up with the book Dr Dee had given me, the volume so thick that everyone thought I would be reading as long as the sunlight held But for... 26 Ella March Chase his grasp He placed it, cool against my palms, then tilted the object so I could see it in the lantern light, a flat brass disc about the size of a horseshoe, smaller metal cogs fitted on its surface I ran my thumb across its bumpy face, feeling the etching carved deep in its surface “Astronomers use it to study the sky,” Father told me “It helps ship captains find their way across the. .. hear us, then he boosted me up into a gap in the stone crenellations that looked like the Tower’s tooth had gone missing “Look up at the sky, Nell What do you see?” “Stars.” “And what do stars do besides shine, Little Bird?” The stars circle around the earth just like the sun and the moon.” “And why is the Church so very certain that is so?” “Because men are the most important creation in the universe . stunned by the structure. Houses marched across the Thames from one shore to the other as if it were another street. How had they built them in the middle of the river? I was certain Father would know Press and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chase, Ella March. The Virgin Queen’s daughter / Ella March Chase. 1 alt="" the Virgin Queen ’ s Daughter a novel Ella March Chase WBRT: Prepress/Printer’s Proof This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s