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The sun was now high overhead, and beat torridly upon the granite crags, which, as I clutched them, blistered my hands. For a while I supposed that we were making for the actual summit; but on the second terrace my captress bore away to the left and led us by a track that slanted across the northern shoulder of the ridge.
It was three days later, in the morning, that his captress said to the Magister Udal: 'Husband, it is time that I gave thee the bridal gift. The magister, happy with a bellyful of carp, bread and breakfast ale, muttered 'Anan? from above his copy of Lucretius. He sat in the window-seat of the great stone kitchen.
"Thy speech of greeting was conned with much pains from the cold book of prior calculation, and so I answered you from a poet's play. I would you loved me!" "Loved thee, oh, divine enchantress too cruel-lovely captress of my dole-breathing heart!" "Tut tut tut!" she broke in, stamping her foot. "Thou dost it badly, Sir Guy. A truce to Euphuistic word-coining and phrase-shifting!
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