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All the time we drew nearer and nearer to the frontiers of Burgundy as requested by Loysik." "And what of little Odille, Ronan? What became of her, poor, dear victim of Frankish brutality?" "I took her to wife; the dear girl never leaves me; she is as sweet as she is brave, as devoted as she is tender." "Dear girl and the bishopess, who interested us all, despite her errors?"
"At the moment when the King bent his head over the fountain of life, 'Lower thy head with humility, Sicambrian, cried the eloquent bishop; 'adore what thou hast burned; burn what thou hast adored. The King's two sisters, Alboflède and Lantéchilde, likewise received baptism; and so at the same time did three thousand of the Frankish army, besides a large number of women and children."
These territories, lying in Romagna and the Marches, the Frankish King conferred on the Pope, as the legitimate representative of imperial power . Pepin's Donation, made in defiance of Byzantine protests, greatly extended the temporal power which the predecessors of Stephen had long exercised in Rome and the neighbourhood.
About three thousand Frankish warriors, however, persisted in their intention of remaining pagans, and deserting Clovis, betook themselves to Ragnacaire, the Frankish king of Cambrai, who was destined ere long to pay dearly for this acquisition. So soon as St.
"Too long already hast thou queened it in my hareem with thine infidel, Frankish ways," he muttered, so that none but those immediately about overheard his angry words. "Thou art become a very scandal in the eyes of the Faithful," he added very grimly. "It were well, perhaps, that we amended that."
As we stood before the high place our Frankish dress seemed almost plain beside the English, richly as we were clad. Then I found that I, by reason of having to interpret, was thrust somewhat more forward than I liked; but there was no help for it, and I went through it all as well as I knew how.
"Nay, the daughters of our land nowadays rival the foreign ladies in wit and fashion," said Abdullah gravely, pursuing his advantage. "I myself assisted at a wedding in Beyrût where the ladies talked and jested freely with the gentlemen, with roars of laughter in the Frankish manner. Ah, that was a sight!
The ecclesiastical and monastic schools took the place of the destroyed Roman day-schools, and whatever modicum of learning the Frankish courts could boast of, was due to the monks and nuns of their time; for some at least of these potentates when not absorbed in the gratification of their lusts, their vengeance, greed or ambition, were possessed by nobler instincts. To St.
Biskaine is even now in the forecastle taking the feeling of the men. Soon we shall know precisely where we stand." "In thy place I would make sure. I would set a term to this danger of mutiny. I would accede to his demands concerning the woman, and settle after-wards with himself." "Abandon that Frankish pearl?" quoth Asad. Slowly he shook his head. "Nay, nay!
Also his costume was very much in the old Frankish style, as people dressed about the year 1720; and perhaps that was why he had the effect of having come back to life out of a period of remote antiquity. But the stranger whom Tussmann had come across was still more remarkable of aspect. A tall, meagre man, powerfully formed as to his limbs and muscles, seemingly about fifty years of age.
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