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Then he led her away, and she went tamely enough to the quarry. There he took her by both her hands, and so held her, waiting till she should be forced to look up at him. When at last, sick and sullen, she raised her eyes, he could hardly contain himself. But he did. "What were you doing by the Abbot's new gallows, Isoult?" "I would rather be there now than here. The company is more to my liking."
Belvisee helped her up by the hand. When she was afoot Mellifont caught her other hand and kissed her in her turn a glad and friendly little embrace. Friends indeed they looked as they stood hand-linked in the fern. All three were of a height, Isoult a shade shorter than the sisters.
Isoult found a bath prepared, and in her gaoler of over-night a dresser who was as brisk as a bee and as humble as a spaniel. "Old servants are the best," said the crone in her defence; "they're not so slippery, but they know how things should go on and off. Ah, and give me a young mistress and a beauty," she went on to sigh, "such as God Almighty hath sent me this night."
But the woman feedeth him with her own milk; so Love is with her till she dies. I, by the mercy of God, have learned what Love is, and can feed him with service. And Isoult la Desirous has taught me, who is now Isoult la Desiree." Prosper ceased. Mellifont was crying on Belvisee's shoulder. The latter said "Prosper, if all men were like thee, we might leave the forest and dwell with them."
So by and by he came to where the Lady Belle Isoult was, and it was a great chamber in a certain tower of the castle and high up Under the eaves of the roof.
"Madam, for my father's sake, if not for mine, you will tell much more than this to his son. Have your words any hint of reference to the Lady Isoult? Speak of her, madam, as you would speak of my mother, for she is my wife." The Countess shrank back in her throne as if to avoid a whip. She cowered there.
Isoult frowned, said little of it, and thought less. With the other pages she waited behind her master's chair at supper. Isoult had prepared herself for what was to come as best she could. She had expounded, as you have been told, her simple love-lore to Alice of the Hermitage; but it is doubtful if she had known how much like a cow beset by flies in a dry pasture a lover may be made.
In two minutes you will not be on your own, but on his, if I know mankind." Isoult changed the talk. "Do you know, or can you tell me, when my lord will come out, ma'am?" she ventured. "Come out, child? Out of what? Out of a box?" Maulfry cried in mock rage. "'Tis my belief you know as much as I do. 'Tis my belief you have been at a keyhole." Mockery gave way; the matter was serious.
Likewise it shall be told how he performed several very wonderful adventures whilst he was in that state, and of how he was brought back into his senses again. How Sir Tristram was discovered with the Lady Belle Isoult; how he assaulted King Mark, and how he escaped from Tintagel into the forest.
"And did you never get close enough to use somebody's eyes?" said Maulfry, with a sly look. Isoult had nothing to say to this. Touch her on the concrete of her love, and she was always dumb. "Well then, I will stay flattering you, and advise," Maulfry pursued. "When that august one chooses to unveil, do you present yourself on knees as you now are.
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