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Then he broke with Richard altogether; and then came Gilles de Gurdun with secret words and offers. The Archduke drained his beer-horn, and with his big hand wrung his beard dry. He winked hard at Gilles, whom he thought to be a hired assassin of deplorable address sent, probably, by Count John. 'Are you angry enough to do what you propose? he asked him. 'I am not, let me tell you.
There was other not so purgatorial damned torment. That was when the sudden thought of her possession by another man, of his own robbery, his own impotence to regain, came upon him in a surging flood and made his neck swell with the rage of a beast. And no crouching to spring, no flash through the air, no snatching here. Here was no Gilles de Gurdun to deal with.
If she was not mine she should be yours; and what is more, she may be so yet. 'You speak idly, said Gurdun, 'of things which no man knows. 'Ah, said the King, 'but I do know them. Leave me: I wish to pray. Gilles moved off, and sat himself on the edge of the hill looking towards Jerusalem. If Richard prayed, it was with the heart, for his lips never opened.
When at last he had stopped, he said, 'Now, Gurdun, what do you want here? Gilles came a step or two of his way, and so again a step or two, and so again, by jerks. When he was so near that it was to be seen what he had in his right hand, the King got up. Gilles saw that he had light fetters on his ankles which could not stop his walking. Richard folded his arms.
'The Sheik Moffadin, a captive, in the name of Ali, and of Abdallah, servant of Ali. So the Marquess, and would have kissed the man, but that he saw no face under the hood, and dared not kiss emptiness. 'Come with me, said the Arabian. An hour later the Marquess came into the Tower of Flies, shaking. He found Saint-Pol there, the Archduke of Austria, and Gilles de Gurdun.
'Keep him so, then, said the abbot testily, who did not love to have his periods truncated. 'If I go back to Saint-Pol, said Jehane, 'I shall fall in with Gilles de Gurdun, who has sworn to have me. 'Well, replied the abbot, 'why should he not? Does he receive the assurance of your brother the Count? Jehane shook her head. 'No, no. My brother wished me to be my lord Richard's.
Yet God knows I hate him. So he went muttering on. The Count edged in his words as he could. 'He hates you, indeed, sire. He hates me. He hates all of us. 'I think we could find him reasons for that, my friend, if he lacked them, said Philip shrewdly. 'Do you know that De Gurdun is in Poictou come from Styria? Count John said nothing; but he did know it very well.
Gurdun swung off the horse, threw the rein to a soldier, and tried footing it. The steady duel of the eyes continued until Gilles was actually within sword's distance. Here he stopped once more; finally gave a queer little grunt, and went down on one knee. Des Barres sighed as he eased his heart. The tension had been terrible. Richard said, 'De Gurdun, stand up and answer me.
Gilles de Gurdun, if you will believe it, with the advice of his father and the countenance of his young brother Bartholomew, would not budge an inch towards the recovery of his wife or her ravisher's punishment until he had drawn out his injury fair on parchment. This he then proposed to carry to his Duke, old King Henry.
Chewing the fringe of his mantle as he considered this and that,'If I give Madame Jehane in marriage to your Gurdun, he said dubiously, 'what will Gurdun do? Saint-Pol named the sum, a fair one. 'But what part will he take in the quarrel? asked the King. 'He will take my part, as he is bound, sire. 'Pest! cried Philip, 'let us get at it. What is this part of yours?
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