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Updated: June 3, 2025
I think the woman in Thee outcried the man. She got a piercing bliss out of each new knife stuck in her little jumping heart. Once or twice she wrote to Alois of France, who was at Fontevrault, in her King's country. 'Dear lady, she wrote, 'they seek to enrage my lord against me.
'Oh, dearest brother, cried he, 'what should I have done if the worst had befallen you? I cannot bear to think of it. 'Oh, brother, Richard said very quietly, 'I think you would have borne it very well. You would have married Madame Alois, and paid for a mass or two for me out of the dowry. This raking shot was heard by everybody. John grew red as fire.
'Beau sire, our lord the august King takes it very ill that you have so long delayed the marriage agreed upon solemnly between your Grace and Madame Alois his sister. 'Therefore, he went on, orotund, 'our lord the King desires that the marriage may be celebrated before he sets out for Acre and the blessed work in those parts.
Little Alois was only a pretty baby with soft round, rosy features, made lovely by those sweet dark eyes that the Spanish rule has left in so many a Flemish face, in testimony of the Alvan dominion, as Spanish art has left broadsown throughout the country majestic palaces and stately courts, gilded house-fronts and sculptured lintels histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
'Too long in England, poor soul, Richard thought; 'but why did she come from the King's tent? It was not a cheerful meeting, nor did the King show any desire to make it better. When by roundabout and furtive ways Madame Alois at last stood drooping by his chair, he began to talk to her in English, a language unknown to Richard, though familiar enough, he saw, to his father and brother.
The miller pressed her in his arms; his hard, sunburnt face was very pale and his mouth trembled. "Surely, surely," he answered his child. "He shall bide here on Christmas Day, and any other day he will. God helping me, I will make amends to the boy I will make amends." Little Alois kissed him in gratitude and joy; then slid from his knees and ran to where the dog kept watch by the door.
The beautiful home captivated the orphan whose life in the circus had deprived her of all real comfort such as she saw here. But it was before the piano that she paused the longest. And when she sang for Alois, that young lady was much gratified to discover that Pearl's singing was as exquisite as the charm of her spoken words. "I'm going to tell Joe Smith," she cried in delight.
He was fresh from making a treaty with Richard; but that was in a war of requital only, and would be ended so soon as the last drop had been drained from the old King. What would follow the war? He was by this time cooler towards Richard, very much vexed at what he had just heard; he could not help remembering that marriage with Alois would have been the proper reply to scandalous report.
He counts me as nothing. 'To him, said Alois, 'you are nothing. 'Madame, said Philip, 'I am King of France, your brother and lord. He is my vassal; owes fealty and breaks it, signs treaties and levies war; hectors me and laughs, kills my servants and laughs. He is my cousin, but I am his suzerain. I do not choose to be mocked.
Let Richard come, since women cry for wounds. But you! He flamed again. 'Get you to hell: you are all a liar. Avoid me, lest I learn more of you. 'Dear sire, John began. Philip loathed him. 'Ah, get you gone, snake, or I tread upon you, he said; and the prince avoided. So much was wrought by Alois of France.
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