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Updated: June 26, 2025
This reminded Saint-Pol of his own words to De Gurdun; so he made haste to throw himself before the Queen, that he might still be pure in his devotion. 'My lady Berengère, he said ardently, 'take me for your soldier. I am a bad man, but surely not so bad as this. Let me fight him for you. The Queen shook her head, impatient. 'Hey! What can you do against so glorious a man?
Let me alone. Gilles, red and gloomy, had to jerk the words out: he was no speaker. The Marquess had a fierce eye. 'Ha, De Gurdun, he said, 'we need thee, good knight. But come out of this accursed fly-roost, and we shall show thee a better way than thine. It is the flies that make thee afraid. 'Eh, damn the flies, said Gilles. 'They will never disturb me. They do but seek their meat.
But Jehane spent part of the interval in the chapel, with her hands crossed upon her fine bosom. The God in her heart fought with Him on the altar. She said no prayers; but when she left the place she sent a messenger for Gilles de Gurdun, the blunt-nosed Norman knight who loved her so much that he said nothing about it.
Pricked by his feats in this sort, Jehane overcame her reserve and turned her members into marionettes. She puffed her cheeks, hung her head, scowled upwards: there was Gilles de Gurdun to the life. She looped finger and thumb of the right hand and pierced them with the ring finger: ohè! her fate. Gaston in reply to this drew his sword and ran a cypress-tree through the body.
All this charmed him quite, until he learned, by hazard, that the Sieur de Gurdun was to be married to Dame Jehane Saint-Pol on Palm Sunday in the church of Saint Sulpice of Gisors. 'God ha' mercy! he thought, with a stab at the heart; 'there is merely time. He rode South on the wind's wings.
I beg you to give her to Messire Gilles de Gurdun, a good knight of Normandy. 'That is a poor marriage for her, Saint-Pol, said the King, considering, 'and a poor marriage for me, by Saint Mary. Why should I enrich the King of England, with whom I am at war? You must give me reason for that.
None tackled him there, though they followed him up as dogs a boar in the forest; but old Gurdun, the father, ran round the other way to hold the west door. 'Out of my way, De Gurdun, he cried in a high singing voice, 'or I shall do that which I shall be sorry for. 'Bloody thief, shouted old Gurdun, 'add murder to the rest! Richard stretched his sword arm stiffly and swept him aside.
As for Gurdun, Richard hurtled full into him, bore him backwards, and threw him also. Jehane safe in arms, he rode over him where he lay. But lastly, pounding through the tussocks in the faint grey light, he met his father charging full upon him, intent to cut him off. 'Avoid me, father, he cried out. 'By God, said the King, 'I will not.
Said King Richard from behind his shield, 'Is that you, Gurdun, my enemy? 'I am that man, said Gilles, 'and bolder than you are, since I can look unoffended upon the place where our Lord God suffered as a man. Suffering, it seems, maketh me sib with God.
From his crouched attitude he went, as it seemed, at one bound. That same shock drove Gilles de Gurdun back among his people, and the same found Jehane caged in a hoop of steel. So he affronting and she caught up stood together, for a moment. With one mailed hand he held her fast under the armpit, with the other he held a fidgety sword.
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