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Updated: June 7, 2025
Then it was that he stabbed me, even at the moment when the holy Saints sent brave Percy and the rest to rush in upon them. 'You are sure it was Ghisbert? repeated Bedford, anxiously. 'As certain as a man's voice can make me, said Malcolm. 'Methinks, had I not named him, he would perhaps have bound me to a tree, and left it to be thought that they were but common thieves.
If that knave Ghisbert ever gives me the chance, he shall hang like a dog; but for the rest he shrugged his shoulders. 'And, said Malcolm, 'Ghisbert only meant to serve his lady. Any vassal of mine would do the like for me or my sister. Bedford half smiled; then sighed and said: 'Once we were like to get laws more obeyed than lords; but that is all over now!
One of them bade me submit quietly, and they would not harm me, if I would yield up that which I wist of. I said I would sooner yield my life than my trust; whereupon they mastered me, and dragged me off my horse, and were rifling me, when I knowing the Flemish accent of that drunken fellow of the Countess's called out, "Shame on you, Ghisbert!"
He had probably been hired by Ghisbert for the attack, and had returned home and spread the report of its success.
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