espoux

Updated: May 2, 2025

This she scornfully refused, whereupon "one of the ruffians strangled her for ten marcs of silver; and her soul, white and pure as the angels, ascended to the throne of Jesus, in whom she so well believed, and there became 'l'unique espoux dont elle ambitionait l'Amour."

George Wharton Edwards - Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders