a-slant

Updated: June 5, 2025

Here silence again, what time Beltane fell to frowning and Sir Fidelis, head a-slant, to watching him furtive-eyed, yet with lips that curved to wistful smile. "Came you in sooth from the Duchess Helen, Fidelis?" "In truth, my lord." "Dost love her also?" "Aye, my lord also!" "Then alas for thee, poor youthful fool, 'twere better I had left thee to thy death, methinks, for she this wilful Helen "

Jeffery Farnol - Beltane the Smith