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Jehane moved swiftly out from the shadow of the buttress and confronted him. She folded her arms over her breast; and at that moment the shadow of Richard's tower was capped with the shadow of Richard himself. But she saw nothing of this. 'Halt there, Sir Gilles, she said. The Norman gave a squeal, like a hog startled at his trough, and went dead-fire colour.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay