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A Monk of Fife

CHAPTER XXXI--HOW NORMAN LESLIE SAW THE MAID IN HER PRISON
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There show to the gate ward this signet of Sir Thomas Grey, and he will up with portcullis and down with drawbridge, for he has often done no less for me and that signet.
"Then, Madame, ride for Louviers, and you shall break your fast with the Bastard and La Hire." Her white face changed to red, like the morning light, as on that day at Orleans, before she took Les Tourelles.
Then the flush faded, and she grew ashen pale, while she said-- "But thou, how shalt thou get forth ?" "Madame," I said, "fear not for me.

I will follow after thee, and shame the sleepy porter to believe that he has dreamed a dream.

And I have written this other pass, on seeing which he will needs credit me, being adrowse, and, moreover, I will pay him well.

And I shall be at the stable as soon almost as thou, and I have told the hostler that belike I shall ride with a friend, carrying a message to the Bishop of Avranches.
For I have beguiled the English to believe me of their party, as Madame Judith wrought to the tyrant Holofernes." "Nay," she answered simply, "this may not be.

Even if the porter were to be bought or beguiled, thou couldst not pass the sentinels.


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