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Updated: May 28, 2025
Overjoyed, the knight rushed forth, to fall by the axe of that stubborn defender. "Sorcery," cried Fitzosborne, "sorcery. This is no man, but fiend." "Spare him, spare the brave," cried in a breath Bruse, D'Aincourt, and De Graville.
The joy of the company in the hall extended itself to the buttery, where Gregory the jester narrated such feats of arms done by himself in the fray of the morning as might have shamed Bevis and Guy of Warwick. He was, according to his narrative, singled out for destruction by the gigantic Baron himself, while he abandoned to meaner hands the destruction of Saint Clere and Fitzosborne.
Finding Gaunt, although covetous and communicative, too faithful a servant to his wicked master to take any active steps against his commands, Fitzosborne applied himself to old Ursely, whom he found more tractable. Through her he learned the dreadful plot Gaston had laid to rid himself of his kinswoman, and resolved to effect her deliverance.
For side by side with the Pope's holy bull was the martial ban: "Good pay and broad lands to every one who will serve Count William with spear, and with sword, and with cross-bow." And the Duke said to Fitzosborne, as he parcelled out the fair fields of England into Norman fiefs: "Harold hath not the strength of mind to promise the least of those things that belong to me.
They did not return until the day before the May-games; and the other events followed too rapidly to permit Fitzosborne to lay any plan for introducing them to Lady Emma Darcy.
From the description she gave of the beauty of her foster- child, as well as from the spirit of chivalry, Fitzosborne became interested in her fate. This interest was deeply enhanced when, by a bribe to old Gaunt the Reve, he procured a view of the Lady Emma as she walked near the castle of Gay Bowers.
"Go then go," said William, "and send me forthwith Lanfranc no, hold not Lanfranc, he is too scrupulous; Fitzosborne no, too haughty. Go, first, to my brother, Odo of Bayeux, and pray him to seek me on the instant." The knight bowed and vanished, and William continued to pace the room, with sparkling eyes and murmuring lips.
William gazed on the pale face: from head to foot he scanned the delicate, slender form, and then, turning away, he said to Fitzosborne: "Thou, whose mailed hand hath fell'd a war-steed, art thou not ashamed of thyself? The day is coming, I see it afar, when these slight men shall set their feet upon our corslets."
Various were the opinions, stormy the debate; and so great the disorder grew, that Fitzosborne, rising in the midst, exclaimed: "Why this dispute? why this unduteous discord? Is not William your lord? Hath he not need of you? Fail him now and, you know him well by G he will remember it! Aid him and you know him well large are his rewards to service and love!"
From the description she gave of the beauty of her foster-child, as well as from the spirit of chivalry, Fitzosborne became interested in her fate. This interest was deeply enhanced when, by a bribe to Old Gaunt the Reve, he procured a view of the Lady Emma as she walked near the castle of Gay Bowers.
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