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A King’s Comrade

CHAPTER X
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"We are beset with them, and they are all ill!" "Have you also visions ?" she asked, almost faintly.
"No; unless you are one, and I must wake to find myself back in bleak Flanders, or fighting for my life in Portland race again.

And I pray that so it may not be; for if I must lose the sight of you, I am lonely indeed." "Nay, hush," she said; "not now.

Wait till all is well for you and for the king--and then, maybe; but I pray you have a care of Gymbert." Now I would have told her that I had no fear of him, and mayhap I should have heeded her other words little enough.

But at that moment Father Selred came back and beckoned to us, and silently we went after him.

The king had seen him and called to him.
Then and there I was made known to the princess, and I thought her strangely sad for one so fair, when she was not speaking.


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