The Shadow of the Pomegranate by Jean Plaidy

Author:Jean Plaidy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781446411575
Publisher: Random House

From a window of the Palace Wolsey watched the departure of Surrey. He wanted to laugh aloud in his triumph.

‘Such disgrace shall befall all the enemies of Thomas Wolsey,’he told himself. ‘No slight shall be forgotten.’

He remembered then a certain gentleman of Limington in Somerset, a Sir Amias Paulet. In the days when Thomas had been rector of Limington he had not shown what Paulet considered adequate respect to this local bigwig; and Paulet had, on some flimsy pretext, caused Thomas Wolsey to be set in the stocks.

Even now Thomas could remember the indignity, and he told himself that when the time was ripe Paulet should deeply regret the day he had Thomas Wolsey set in the stocks.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Nay, thought Thomas, I am no ordinary man, and any who robs me of one tooth shall pay with two of his own.

So Surrey, who had called the King’s almoner a butcher’s cur, had lost his chance of following the King to France; he had also lost his place at Court.

That was meet and fitting, thought Thomas, smiling. There would be many scores to settle on the way up, and they should be settled . . . settled in full.

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