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Nobody moved till he was out of sight. Then said Des Barres with a high oath, 'I could serve that King if he would let me. 'God damn him, said Gilles de Gurdun for his part. It was near the end of January when they sighted over sea the painted sails of the Queen. Mother's galley. Her fleet anchored in the roads, and the lady came ashore. She had two interviews, one with her son, one with Jehane.
For if I look upon it I shall lead my men up against it; and then they will be cut off and destroyed, since we are too few. I will never see what I cannot save. Said Gilles between his teeth, 'You robber, you have seen my wife, and cannot save her now' Richard laughed softly. 'God bless her, he said, 'she is my true wife, and will be saved sure enough. Yet I will tell you this, Gurdun.
In the empty watches of the night, in the blistering daytime, under the white sky or the deep violet, Des Barres remembered his struck face, De Gurdun his stolen wife, Saint-Pol his dead brother, and the Duke of Burgundy his forty pounds. It must be said that Richard stretched his authority as far as it would go.
'They do drive me, sire. I have seen the Sieur Gilles de Gurdun. King Richard is in hold at Gratz, and must be delivered. 'By you, sister? 'By me, sire. 'You grow Christian, Madame. 'It is my need, sire. I have done King Richard a great wrong. This is not tolerable to me. 'Eh, says Philip, 'not so fast. Was no wrong done to you? 'Wrong was done me, said the white girl, 'but not by him.
Richard got a side blow on the knee, but in return he caught Drago de Merlou under the armpit and well-nigh cut him in half. Taillefer and Gilles de Gurdun set upon him together, and one of them wounded him in the shoulder. But Taillefer got more than he gave, for he fell almost as he delivered his blow, and broke his jaw against a rock.
This strife tore her to pieces, while Gurdun snuffled round the walls, actually round the buttress where she crouched, spying out the entries. On one side she feared Gilles, on the other scorned what he could do. There was the leper! He made Gilles terrible; even her sacrifice on Lebanon might not avail against such as he. But King Richard! But this strong singer! But this god of war!
'He will think the job a light one, and we shall nip him in the hills. The Bishop of Beauvais lent a hand, so did Adhémar Viscount of Limoges, and Achard the lord of Chaluz, not because he desired, but because he was forced by Limoges his suzerain. Another forced labourer was Sir Gilles de Gurdun, who had been found by Saint-Pol doing work in Poictou and won over after a few trials.
'Ha, Heart of Jesus! said Gilles de Gurdun. One very great power of King Richard's had never served him better than now, the power of immense quiescence, whereunder he could sit by day or by night as inert as a stone, a block hewn into shape of a man, neither to be moved by outside fret nor by the workings of his own mind.
I had him unarmed before me at Messina, and he looked me down, and I could not do it. 'Have at his back, then. 'I hope it may not come to that, said Gilles; 'and yet it may, if it must. 'Come with me to-night to the Tower of Flies, said Saint-Pol. 'Here is my shameful sister brought out of church. I cannot stay. 'I stay, said Gilles de Gurdun.
You have disturbed me, sickened me of assassination, reminded me of what I intended to forget. If I get any more assassins I shall break prison and the Archduke's head, and I should be sorry to do that, as I have no grudge against him. Find Des Barres, Gurdun, raise all Normandy. Find above all Mercadet, and set him to work in Poictou. As for England, my brother Geoffrey will see to it.
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