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Belasez listened more intently than ever. There was a world of tender regret in Abraham's voice, and she knew that it was not for Licorice. "Licorice," he said, and stopped. "Go on," responded her mother sharply, "unless thou wert after some foolery, as is most likely." "Licorice, hast thou forgotten that Sabbath even, when thou broughtest home " "I wish thou wouldst keep thy tongue off names.
Doucebelle alone was silent: but her private thought was that no one of the four had come near the truth. When Belasez had been about a week at the Castle, one afternoon she and Doucebelle were working alone in the wardrobe. The Countess and Margaret were away for the day, on a visit to the Abbess of Thetford; Eva and Marie were out on the leads; Hawise was busy in her own apartments.
"He said, speaking to Abraham, the father of them all, `I will bless him that blesseth thee, and curse him that curseth thee." "Oh, I am so glad!" cried Doucebelle. "If you please, Father, I could not help loving Belasez: but I tried hard not to do so, because I thought it was wicked. It cannot be wrong to love a Jew, if Christ Himself were one." Bruno did not reply immediately.
"Belasez," she began, in tones so amiable that Belasez would instantly have suspected a trap, had she overheard nothing, for Licorice's character was well known to her "Belasez, I hear from thy father that thou hast heard some foolish gossip touching one Anegay, that was a kinswoman of thine, and thou art desirous of knowing the truth. Thou shalt know it now.
As they passed the upper end of the hall, Belasez paused for an instant to make a last reverence to Margaret, who sat there talking with her unacknowledged husband, Sir Richard de Clare. The black scowl on the face of her brother drew her attention at once. "Who is that young Gentile?" he demanded. "Sir Richard de Clare, Lord of Gloucester." "What hast thou against him?" asked old Hamon.
"I did not know she was thine when I made friends with her," said Bruno, with that quiet smile of his which had always seemed to Belasez at once so sweet and so sad. "`Did not know'? No, I suppose not. Ah, yes, yes! `Did not know'!" "Does this child know my history?" was Bruno's next question. "She knows," said Abraham in a troubled voice, "nearly as much as thou knowest." "Then she knows all?"
It explained, too, if Beatrice had died so soon after arrival, why the child Rosia had not heard of her. So then I knew, Belasez, that the life to which my God called me thenceforward was to be a lonely walk with Him, sweetened by no human love any more, only by the dear hope that Heaven would hold us all, and that when we met in the Golden City we should part no more."
"That is the youth that threw my cap into a pool, a year ago, and called me a Jew cur," said Delecresse, between his teeth. "Pooh, pooh!" said old Hamon. "We all have to put up with those little amenities. Never mind it, child." "I'll never mind it till the time come!" answered Delecresse, in an undertone. "Then I think I see how to wipe it off." Belasez found her mother returned from Lincoln.
Then, as to Bruno, Belasez was conscious in her heart that she loved him very dearly, though her affection was utterly unmingled with any thoughts of matrimony. She would have thought old Hamon as eligible for a husband, when he patted her on the head with a patriarchal benediction. It was altogether a friendly and daughterly class of feeling with which she regarded Father Bruno.
Before either could speak further, Belasez had thrown herself on her knees, and flung her arms around Abraham. "O Father, if it be so, speak quickly, and end his agony! For the sake of the righteous Lord, that loveth righteousness, do, do give Father Bruno back his child!" Abraham disengaged himself from Belasez's clinging arms with what seemed almost a shudder.
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