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He stepped to the mourning women, and took the eldest by the hand. At first he whispered to her in a voice so low that Graul heard nothing, but saw her brow relax, and that she listened while the blood came slowly back to her cheeks. "Of what are you telling her?" the King demanded. "Hush!" said the Stranger, "Go, fetch me a harp." Graul brought a harp.
But as Sibyll started from her father's arms, when she heard the departing hoofs of her lover's steed, to listen and to listen for the last sound that told of him, a terrible apparition, ever ominous of woe and horror, met her eye. On the other side of the orchard fence, which concealed her figure, but not her well-known face, which peered above, stood the tymbestere, Graul.
"But I dare not throttle her, for a great lord loves her, who would find out the deed and avenge it; and if she be left behind, she will go to the lord, and the lord will discover what thou hast done with the wizard, and thou wilt hang!" "Never say 'Hang' to me, Graul: it is ill-mannered and ominous. Who is the lord?" "Hastings."
But whatever their remorse, it was diverted by a double sound: first, a loud hurrah from some of the mob who had loitered for pillage, and who now emerged from Adam's house, following two men, who, preceded by the terrible Graul, dancing before them, and tossing aloft her timbrel, bore in triumph the captured Eureka; and, secondly, the blast of a clarion at the distance, while up the street marched horse and foot, with pike and banner a goodly troop.
"Bring the model intact, and I will teach thee more, Graul, the dead man's candle, and the charm of the newt; and I'll give thee, to boot, the Gaul of the parricide that thou hast prayed me so oft for. Hum! thou hast a girl in thy troop who hath a blinking eye that well pleases me; but go now, and obey me. Work before play, and grace before pudding!"
By the way, whither wend ye, wenches?" "To a bonny, jolly fair," answered the sinister voice of Graul, "Where a mighty SHOWMAN dyes The greenery into red; Where, presto! at the word Lies his Fool without a head; Where he gathers in the crowd To the trumpet and the drum, With a jingle and a tinkle, Graul's merry lasses come!"
"That Adam Warner is a wizard, in the pay of Lord Warwick, whom a more mighty master like myself alone can duly examine and defeat." "And if I bring thee the sorcerer, what wilt thou teach me in return?" "What desirest thou most?" Graul mused, and said, "There is war in the wind. Graul follows the camp, her trooper gets gold and booty.
They laid hands on all the provisions in the house, tore the meats from the spit, devouring them half raw; set the casks running over the floors; and while they swilled and swore, and filled the place with the uproar of a hell broke loose, Graul Skellet, whom the lust for the rich garments of Sibyll still fired and stung, led her followers up the stairs towards the deserted chamber.
By the side of the friar stood a female, enveloped in a long scarlet mantle, with the hood partially drawn over the face, but still leaving visible the hard, thin, villanous lips, the stern, sharp chin, and the jaw resolute and solid as if hewed from stone. "I tell thee, Graul," said the friar, "that thou hast had far the best of the bargain.
But there were dawns which discovered one or two missing from the tale of boats, home-comings with heavy news for freight, knots of women and children with blown wet hair awaiting it, white faces and the wails of widow and orphan. The days drew in and this began to happen often so often that a tale grew with it and spread, until it had reached all ears but those of King Graul and Queen Motte.
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