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As long as he had a breath in his body, she would strive to make him suffer.
Preparing to leave the king’s study, Catherine Howard paused as the door swung open to reveal a dark robed figure beyond. Face to face with the earl of Essex, the new Lord Great Chamberlain, Catherine smiled pleasantly, working hard to hide the anger that had been coming over her in waves for the entire morning. His respectful greeting, couched in the most courteous of terms, reflected his awareness that she would soon be his queen, but his deep bow filled her with a satisfaction that only lessened to a degree the humiliation that Edward had heaped upon her. Catherine answered the man’s courtesy with a friendly nod of the head and curtsy, and then continued past him into the corridor.
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