ANST - Escorts to the Royal Presence

[Nan Bradford-Reid]

At 02:10 PM 1/19/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I've been following the thread about "to escort of not escort".

>Sad to say, I have in the past had people attempt to force me to accept an
>escort.  I have not yet had to casually break an instep accidentally on purpose
>to slow down this activity -- usually a quiet, "Mi'lord, I prefer no escort"
>has served to discourage the overeager.  I can only recall one time when I had
>to say it twice, and on that one occasion I quietly said (smiling all the
>while) "If you don't sit down you are a dead man and all your sheep and flocks
>with you."  The smile and the way I said it kept the thought from seeming as
>harsh as the words themselves, and let the overeager gentleman know that I
>really, truly meant that I wanted no escort.
>
>As has already been pointed out, I rarely need or desire an escort -- I am a
>free woman of good birth and where I come from the king is merely a superior
>sort of farmer and we are all theoretically equals in rank, 

Yeah, but in your case, Gunnora, they're not escorting you because you're a
female, but ot protect the King!  <<grin>>

Catherine

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