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The Path of the King

CHAPTER 3
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A green girl, doubtless with a white face and cat's eyes.

But she is of Avesnes, and that blood comes pure from Clovis, and there is none prouder in Hainault.

He will husband her well, but she will be a clever woman if she tethers to her side a man of my bearing.
He will be for the high road and the battle-front." "A puissant and peaceable knight, I have heard tell," said the Cluniac.
"Puissant beyond doubt, and peaceable when his will is served.

He will play boldly for great things and will win them.

Ah, monk! What knows a childless religious of a mother's certainty?
'Twas not for nothing that I found Willebald and changed the cobbles of King's Lynn for this fat country.


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