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"Alas, it is because I am always thinking of my own country, of my parents, so far away so far away from this country of Gaul, where I am an utter stranger." "Wisigarde did not trouble herself about such matters she drank deeply, and ate almost as much as the count." "He always told me and my father that she died of an accident.
"Well, madam, that evening, instead of yielding to the whim of the seigneur count, and taking the lamp to light him to his bed, Wisigarde began scolding them both the count and Martine." "She certainly invited death! My blood freezes in my veins at the thought of it." "Thereupon, madam, I saw, as clearly as I see you now, the count's eyes grow bloodshot and froth rise to his lips.
"Oh, madam, you should not be so alarmed. As long, at any rate, as you will be pregnant, you will have nothing to fear the seigneur count will not want to kill at one blow both his wife and child." "But after I shall have given birth to that child I shall then be killed like Wisigarde!" "That will depend, madam, upon the humor of the seigneur count.
The "Lion of Poitiers" earned his name by reason of his carnivorous taste for rapine and flesh dripping blood. Seigneur count! Seigneur count Neroweg! Will you not wake up? Wake up also your wife Godegisele, who spent the night dreaming of strangled wives. Be up and doing. Let Godegisele array herself in the most resplendent jewels of your fourth wife Wisigarde! Hurry, hurry, seigneur count!
"Madam, I am at your orders." "You, all of you slaves, do not hate me, do you?" "No, madam; you are not wicked like Wisigarde you never whip and bite us." "Morise, listen to me." "Madam, I listen. But why are you silent? And your cheeks, otherwise so pale, growing incarnate " "It is because I dare not tell you. But listen, you are you are one of monseigneur the count's favorites."
"No, madam, I did not know that." "It is the custom in Germany. Alas, Morise, I repeat it, would that that wisp of straw had been a dagger! I would have died without undergoing my present agony. And now that I know about the murder of Wisigarde, my life will be but one long and cruel agony." "But, madam, you should have refused to wed the count, seeing he inspired you with such horror."
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