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Updated: June 24, 2025
For Arnold de Curboil's servants had been all Greeks, and when they had learned that their master had been killed in the night, they had bolted and barred the house, and had bound Beatrix and her Norman tirewoman hand and foot and gagged their mouths with cloths, in order that they might carry off the rich plunder, but at first they had not meant to kill the women.
"They think that some great force is with us, and are afraid," said the Jewish boy. "Speak to them, sir, for they do not understand my tongue." And the interpreter explained what he said. Then Gilbert spoke in English, for he supposed that Curboil's men must be Englishmen, but the Jewish boy knew that the words should sound otherwise. "In Greek, sir!
He met no one in the road; but in the meadow before the castle half a dozen Saxon grooms, in loose hose and short homespun tunics, were exercising some of Curboil's great Normandy horses. The baron himself was not in sight, and the grooms told Gilbert that he was within. The drawbridge was down, and Gilbert halted just before entering the gate, calling loudly for the porter.
"But that is not all," she continued thoughtfully; "was there no woman no love no one that was dearer than all you lost?" A faint and almost boyish blush rose in Gilbert's cheek, and disappeared again instantly. "They took her from me, too," he said in a low, hard voice. "She was Arnold de Curboil's daughter when he married my mother he made his child my sister. You know the Church's law!"
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