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Updated: June 7, 2025
"What can we do to rescue our friends if they still live, or to avenge them if dead?" asked Castleman. "I do not know," answered Hymbercourt. "Let me think it all over, and I will see you at your house to-night. Of this I am certain: you must not move in the matter.
"His fealty has always been as loud-mouthed as the baying of a wolf." "I am a Burgundian, my lord," said Hymbercourt, ignoring the Italian and addressing Charles. "I receive no pay for my fealty. I am not a foreign mercenary, and I need not defend my loyalty to one who knows me as he knows his own heart." "My Lord d'Hymbercourt's honor needs no defence," said Charles.
"True," answered the princess, "but it is better to give half than to lose all. Where can we turn for help against this greedy king? When Burgundy is in better case, we'll take them all from him again." "Your Highness is right," answered Hymbercourt. "But what assurance have you that King Louis will accept your terms?" "Little, my lord, save that King Louis does not know our weakness.
If the gate should be closed, ride away without me and carry the news to the cantons. I would gladly give my life to save the fatherland." "Hang them," cried the duke. "We are wasting time." "I pray your patience, my Lord Duke," said Hymbercourt, holding up his hand protestingly. "I know these men whom Count Calli has falsely accused.
We lack the strong arm of the duke, to force men to battle against their will. King Louis must be fought by policy, not by armies; and Hymbercourt is absent." "Do you know aught of him, Sir Karl?" asked Yolanda. "I do not, Fräulein," I answered, "save that he was alive and well when we left Nancy."
"My poor house has entertained kings and princes; but never has it had so great an honor as that which it now has in sheltering you." That night the duke came with Hymbercourt to honor us at the inn. Each spoke excitedly and warmly. Max seemed to be the only calm man in Peronne.
Perhaps Max should not come, since I shall be the wife of another, and and there would surely be trouble. Max should not come." She stepped quickly to my side. Her hand fell, and she grasped mine for an instant under the folds of her cloak; then she ran from the passage, and I went to the room where Max and Hymbercourt were waiting. After a few moments the duke joined us.
He ran against me, against our squires, who were lusty big fellows, and now and then against Hymbercourt, who was a most accomplished knight. Yolanda was prone to coax Max not to fight, and her fear showed itself in every look and gesture. Her words, of course, could not have turned him, but her fears might have undermined his self-confidence.
These knights have been arrested to gratify revenge for personal injury received and deserved by this traitorous Count Calli." "It is false," cried Campo-Basso. "It is true pitifully true, my lord," returned Hymbercourt. "This young knight was at the moat bridge near Castleman's House under the Wall talking with a burgher maid, Fräulein Castleman.
I felt that I was growing weak in mind. Yolanda's desire to tell Max her secret, and her refusal; her longing for human sympathy, and the lack of it; her wish that he should remain in Peronne for a month all these made me feel that she was the princess. I could not help hoping that Hymbercourt was mistaken in pointing out Her Highness.
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