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On looking back he saw her thin white face at the window and concluded as Mrs. Parry did that the poor lady had something on her mind. In due time he arrived at the Priory and was shown into a gloomy drawing-room, where George Franklin received him. Giles apologized for not having called before, and was graciously pardoned. "And, indeed, I should have called on you, Mr.
Giles's ready tongue faltered for very gratitude and on each tanned cheek were bright, quick-falling tears. "Giles," said she, "thou wert true and faithful to my lord when his friends were few, so methinks thou should'st be faithful and true to thy sweet Genevra so will I make thee Steward and Bailiff of Mortain an my lord is in accord "
Giles, who was impatient and domineering by nature, chafed much against the restraints imposed upon him by my loneliness. His brief calls did not suffice him. I would not let him come often or stay long.
I never could understand why it should be called the 'Stone Coffin' but so it is. Some prisoners have imagined they would get their death with cold from a single night passed within it but that's a mistaken notion altogether." "You have proof to the contrary in Sir Ferdinando Mounchensey, father of the present prisoner," said Sir Giles, in a derisive tone.
[Footnote 16: Giles, op. cit., p. 74. Professor Giles adds,
"Oh, no exception can be taken to Brother Giles Amaury; he understands the ordering of a battle, and the fighting in front when it begins.
At this point of the narrative the cook turned pale, and asked the housemaid to shut the door: who asked Brittles, who asked the tinker, who pretended not to hear. Heerd a noise, continued Mr. Giles. 'I says, at first, "This is illusion"; and was composing myself off to sleep, when I heerd the noise again, distinct. 'What sort of a noise? asked the cook.
"Granger was hurrying off with them," repeated Louisa, "werry red in the face, and mad like. The captain was crying, and t'other chap had a red mark down his cheek it's not a quarter of an hour by St. Giles' clock as I saw him." "Where was they going?" asked Bet. "Tell me quick, or I'll shake you." "Down Castle Street, making for Lime Street and the railway station, I expect."
So there, upon the bridge, the fight raged fiercer than before; men smote and died, until of Sir Pertolepe's garrison there none remained save they that littered that narrow causeway. "Now by the good Saint Giles my patron saint," gasped Giles, wiping the sweat from him, "here was a good and sweet affray, tall brother a very proper fight, pugnus et calcibus while it lasted "
On the next day he sent for a bill, which had been standing a good while. His clerk brought back some impertinent and altogether unsatisfactory answer. "Did Mr. Giles say that?" he asked, his eyes flashing indignantly. "His exact words," replied the clerk. "Very well. I'll not send to him again," said Mr. Adkin.
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