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Updated: June 5, 2025
In an hour we were all fighting pell mell on the walls of the castle itself, and some were slain outright, and some were wounded, and some yielded themselves and received mercy; but I had scarce the heart to fight any more, because I thought of Alys lying with her face upon the floor and her agonised hands outspread, trying to clutch something, trying to hold to the cracks of the boarding.
After supper, when the tables were removed, the King seated himself for his delight upon a carpet spread before the dais, his son and many a courteous lord with him. The fair company gave ear to the Lay of Alys, sweetly sung by a minstrel from Ireland, to the music of his rote.
"Red Godwyn went forth, and after a bloody fight took his enemy's castle. If we still lived in like simple, honest times, I should take Dunholm Castle in the same way. He also took Alys of the Eyes and bore her away captive." "From such incidents developed the germs of the desire for female suffrage," Miss Vanderpoel observed gently.
And whanne he saw her, he sayde, here haue I fond my loue and my lady. Truly fayre lady, said he, I promise yow to be your knyghte, and none other that bereth the lyf. Now, gentil knyghte, said she, telle me your name. My name is, said he, Alysander le Orphelyn. Now damoysel, telle me your name, said he. My name is, said she, Alys la Beale Pilggrym.
For one moment each had been held prisoner then now it was for longer. "Alys of the Sea-Blue Eyes." Betty tried to release herself, but could not. "Sometimes the sea is grey," she said. His own eyes were still in hers. "Hers were the colour of the sea on a day when the sun shines on it, and there are large fleece-white clouds floating in the blue above.
They assured her that it was as much her duty to know about such things as to know the condition of her own back yard. Then came the awful revelations of Kentwood human beings huddled like rats; children swarming, dirty and hungry! She could not bear to remember the scenes she had witnessed in Kentwood. She recalled the shock of Alys Brewster-Smith's indifference to all that misery!
Isn't it just the combination of reactionary old fogies you might expect to get together... though I didn't know Alys ever took her little girl out to dinner-parties, and Emelene must be perfectly crazy over that cat to take her here. Cats make George's flesh creep. Don't you remember, at the Sunday School Bazaar."
"But his wife isn't doing the business. It's the business, not the social interests, we have to consider. "Oh, but she is in the business," Alys explained. "I think it's because she's jealous of him; she wants to be around the office and watch him." Geneviève interposed. "Mrs. Allen owns a lot of land herself, and she looks after it. It seems quite natural to me."
'The Lord reward you damoyzel, I said. Then I saw that the King had left talking with that knight and was just going to stand up and say something out loud, so I went quickly and called out with a loud voice: 'O King Gilbert of the rose-land, I, Lionel of the golden wings, pray of you three boons in the name of Alys des roses and Sir Guy le bon amant.
And as I walked I stooped and picked a great orange lily, and held it in my hand, and lo! down the garden walk, the same fair damozel that had before this given me good counsel in the hall. Thereat I was very glad, and walked to meet her smiling, but she was very grave, and said: 'Fair sir, the Lady Alys des roses wishes to see you in her chamber.
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