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Meantime lord Herbert came and went. There was fighting here and / fighting there, castles taken, defended, re-taken, here a little / success and there a worse loss, now on this side and now on that; / but still, to say the best, the king's affairs made little progress; / and for Mary Somerset, her body and soul made progress in opposite / directions.
There was a strange pleasant mixture of sweet fretfulness and / trusting appeal in her. Children suffer less because they feel that / all is right when father or mother is with them; grown people from / whom this faith has vanished ere it has led them to its original / fact, may well be miserable in their sicknesses.