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The people, knowing the former circumstances, might have believed Fulbert had only Abelard denied it, but when the person chiefly interested the girl herself denied it, they laughed, despairing Fulbert to scorn. The poor canon of the cathedral of Paris was spiked again. The last hope of repairing the wrong that had been done his house was gone. What next? Human nature suggested revenge.
She refused the marriage at first; she said Fulbert would betray the secret to save her, and besides, she did not wish to drag down a lover who was so gifted, so honored by the world, and who had such a splendid career before him. It was noble, self-sacrificing love, and characteristic of the pure-souled Heloise, but it was not good sense.
'Yes, said Fulbert, 'there was nobody else but me, and Clem could hardly bear the sight of me, because I had led him into it. We thought no one in the house would know it and I don't believe they do. 'Ah! said Lady Price, 'it is false kindness to attempt concealment. 'From lawful authority it is, said Mr. Audley; 'but in this case it was only from children and servants.
But the lovers continued to meet; scandal was again busy and Fulbert published the marriage. Héloïse, that the master's advancement in the Church might not be impeded, gave the lie to her uncle and fled to the nuns of Argenteuil. Fulbert now plotted a dastardly revenge.
The succession of a bastard was never likely to be quite undisputed or his reign to be quite undisturbed. Now William succeeded to his duchy under the double disadvantage of being at once bastard and minor. He was born at Falaise in 1027 or 1028, being the son of Robert, afterwards duke, but then only Count of Hiesmois, by Herleva, commonly called Arletta, the daughter of Fulbert the tanner.
'But it is not a pretty one, said little Robina. 'Last year it was green, and before that red; and this is nasty stupid black and white, and all thin crackling paper. Felix laughed, and held up the document. 'What! cried Fulbert. 'Five! Why, 'tisn't only five shillings! the horrid old cheat! 'It's a five-pound note! screamed Cherry. 'I saw one when Papa went to the bank! O Felix, Felix!
Indeed, he scarcely durst notice them in Fulbert, lest he should be betrayed into violence by letting out his temper. 'I say! cried Lance, struck by a new idea, 'what prime stuff it is for making a fort! and he began to scrape the more solid parts of his plateful to one side. 'Oh, I say, isn't it? echoed Fulbert: 'but I've eaten up the best part of my castle; and he grasped at the ladle.
Fulbert, our Vicar as is, was growed up, and hard work they say it was to get him to bend his mind to it; nor he'd not have done it at last, but for his father's paying of his bills, and giving consent to his marrying Miss Shaw. And since that, bless you, Sir, the curates have done nothing but change, change, change, till 'tis enough to ruin a good clerk. 'It is only the cloth, Mr.
"It is not true that Abelard has married me. My uncle merely tells you this to save my reputation." They asked her whether she would swear to this; and, without a moment's hesitation, this pure and noble woman took an oath upon the Scriptures that there had been no marriage. Fulbert was enraged by this. He ill-treated Heloise, and, furthermore, he forbade Abelard to visit her.
A grand pack it was: first, the precious hamper; then a long sofa cushion, laid along the bottom; then Geraldine lifted in by Sibby and Felix, and folded up with shawls, and propped with cushions by Mamma, whose imagination foresaw more shaking than did the more youthful anticipation; then Mamma herself, not with 'little baby, but with Angela on her lap, and Angela's feet in all manner of unexpected places; then a roll of umbrellas and wraps; then Wilmet, Fulbert, Lance, and Robina nowhere in particular, and lastly Papa, making room for Clement between himself and the good-humoured lad of a driver, who had not long ago been a member of the choir, while Felix, whom nothing could tire on that day, dived rapidly down a complication of alleys, declaring he should be up with the walkers long before they were overtaken by the van.
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