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She did not ask it, but he could see that she expected to be enlightened upon the subject of Isoult doubtful company for a knight; so having made up his mind how much he could afford to tell her, he did not waste time in preliminaries.
In these delicate times of crisis Isoult found an advocate, a recorder, if you will be ruled by me. It was none too soon, for the brother and sister of High March had reached that pretty stage of intimacy when long silences are an embarrassment, and embarrassments compact equally of pleasure and pain.
Now she held out her left hand and let him crown it. He held on alas! he was growing master every minute. "Isoult." "Yes." "Oh, my dear love, Isoult! Now I shall wed thee, Isoult the Much- Desired." She began to shake. But she put her hands up till they rested on his shoulders. She laughed in a low thrilled tone. "I am La Desiree now, and no longer La Desirous.
"Slip on your night-gown and into the bed." "Trust her now, trust her now," went Isoult's wild heart. "Not yet, mother," said she, "you must hear me now." Ursula dropped into a chair. Isoult knelt before her and put the ring in her old hand. "Mother, look at this ring," she began, out of breath already, "and look at me, and then let me go.
But the Lady Belle Isoult was not very well pleased with that saying, for she began again to fear that maybe the will of Sir Palamydes was so strong that Sir Tristram would not have any success against him. So came the third day of that very famous contest at arms, and when this morning was come there began to gather together in the two parties those who were to contest the one against the other.
The hidden things were made plain, and the crooked things straight; for the first time, it seemed, he was to see openly when his eyes were shut. He had, in spite of himself, centred them one by one in Isoult, and now he dreamed of her as she was, and of them as they were. This was his dream.
When this is done, we will depart from this place unto some other place of refuge, and I do not think there will be any in the castle will dare stop or stay us after we are armed." And they burst open the doors and went in with torches, and found Belle Isoult and her attendant in the upper part of the castle.
If Maulfry had been less summary with him she might have prevented the inevitable; but like all people with brains she thought a simpleton was an ass, and kicks your only speech with such. Vincent and Isoult, therefore, became friends as the days went on.
I will see one I never thought to face again; I shall win honour which God knows I am late a-winning. Leave everything to me." Isoult asked nothing better, for the very sufficient reason that she knew nothing. Her earth-born habit of taking all things as they came in order stood her in good part; she had no temptation to ask what all this meant.
And there were many who were very sorry that Sir Tristram was dead and there were others who were glad thereof in the same measure. But when the news was brought to Belle Isoult that Sir Tristram was dead, she shrieked aloud and swooned away. And she lay in that swoon so long that they thought for a while she would never recover from it.
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