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"Young Sir, it would be a favour if you would ride with us; we would gladly show you the way to Bednall Green." "I should rejoice to go, Sir," returned Richard, "but I am of Prince Edward's household Richard Fowen; and my horse is on the other side of the river."
Broken in health and spirit, Philippe resolved to desist from the Crusade, and both he and his uncle would have persuaded the English to do the same, since their small force alone could effect nothing; but Edward was undaunted. "I would go," said he, "if I had no one with me but Fowen, my groom."
Sir Raynal on his side seemed to share the desire; he exchanged a friendly glance with the page, and when the formality of the reception was over sought him out, saying, "I have a greeting for you, Master Fowen." "From Sir Robert Darcy?" asked Richard. "How fares it with the kind old knight?" "Excellent well! Nay, nothing fares amiss with Father Robert!" said the young knight, smiling.
I hoped at least to be called Fitz Simon, but some mumble of the King turned it into Fowen, and so it has continued. I believe no one at court is really ignorant of my lineage; but among the people, Montfort is still a trumpet-call, and the King fears to hear it." "Well he may!" laughed Henry.
Long did the king argue on. His low voice was scarcely audible, even without the words; but Edward's brief, ringing, almost scornful, replies, never failed to reach Richard's ear, and the last of them was, "It skills not, my fair uncle. For the Holy Land I am vowed to fight, and thither would I go had I none with me but Fowen, my groom!"
Thou canst keep thy feet, Fowen, or what do they call thee? Down with thee to the cabin, and let the Prince know." Stepping across the prostrate forms, and meeting with vituperations as he trode, Richard made his way to the ladder that led below, and notified his presence behind the curtain that veiled the royal cabin. He was summoned to enter at once.
That voice sounds not among the living!" "It is the voice of the youth who saved thy child," said the Grand Prior. "Speak again! Let him speak again!" implored the beggar. "Can I do aught for you, good man?" asked Richard. Again there was a strange start and thrill of amazement. "Only for Heaven's sake tell me who thou art!" "A page of Prince Edward's good man. I am called Richard Fowen!
The other pages had teased, fagged, and bullied him to their hearts' content, without disturbing his determination to go his own way; and his only friend and protector had been Richard, whom, under the name of Fowen, he took for a genuine Englishman, and loved with all his heart.
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