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'I'll probably be up before you come back with the news about the heirs and Tyrrel.'
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GRANT was not, as it happened, out of bed when Carradine came again, but he was sitting up.
'You can't imagine,' he said to Brent, 'how fascinating the opposite wall looks, after the ceiling. And how small and queer the world looks right way up.'
He was touched by Carradine's obvious pleasure in this progress and it was some time before they got down to business. It was Grant who had to say: 'Well, how did the York heirs make out under Henry VII?'
'Oh, yes,' said the boy, puffing out his usual wad of notes and drawing up a chair by hooking his right toe in the crossbar. He sat down on the chair. 'Where shall I begin?'
'Well, about Elizabeth we know. He married her, and she was Queen of England until she died and he made a bid for the mad Juana of Spain.'
'Yes. She was married to Henry in the spring of 1486-in January, rather; five months after Bosworth-and she died in the spring of 1503.'
'Seventeen years. Poor Elizabeth. With Henry it must have seemed like seventy. He was what is euphemistically referred to as "unuxorious". Let us go on down the family. Edward's children, I mean. Fate of the two boys unknown. What happened to Cecily?'
'She was married to his old u
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