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The boy put his face up quickly and kissed his father's lips. 'What a lover! the King laughed; and Jehane said, 'He always kisses on the lips. Richard sighed, suddenly tired; Fulke looked about, frightened at all the solemnity, and took his mother's hand. She gave him over to Des Barres, who led him away. The King signed to Jehane to bend down her head.
In a moment, when he was come again, she saw that he was a long lover who would treat her well. 'God help me, and him also, she thought; 'it may be that I shall need him before long. He waited two days there for Abbot Milo to come up with last news of Jehane; then at the head of sixty spears he rode fleetly over the marshes towards Louviers.
Here was Jehane Saint-Pol, a girl of two-and-twenty to his two-and-thirty, well born, well formed, greatly desired among her peers, who, having let her soul be stolen, was prepared to cut it out of herself for his sake who took it, and let it die. She was the creature of his love, in and out by now the work of his hands. God had given her a magnificent body, but Richard had made it glow.
Soon heavy feet are heard trooping up the stairs; doors are heard to bang; cheery voices wish each other good-night. Then gradually the sounds die away. They keep early hours at the "Loup Noir"; it is not yet ten o'clock. Still Arnaud remains sitting on the edge of the bed; the dark plush canopy overhead repels him, he does not feel inclined for sleep. Jehane! what a picture she would make!
Jehane blushed to report it the gift of a friend; whereupon the Princess looked her up and down in a way that made her hot all over. But when it came to the time of meeting King Richard, Berengère's nervous fears came crowding back; the poor little creature began to shake, clung to Jehane. 'How tall is the king, how tall is he? Taller than you? she asked, looking up at the Picard girl.
He limped under the gateway into the town, and the croucher by the wall peered at him between the meshes of her dishevelled hair. The Old Man of Musse, Lord of all the Assassins, descendant of Ali, Fulness of Light, Master of them that eat hemp, and many things beside, wedded Jehane and made her his principal wife.
But if the poet is a king! I have a certain fear just now. I think I will She took Jehane's arm 'No! no! She drew away. 'You are too tall I will never take your arm I am ashamed. I beg you to go before me. Lead the way. So Jehane went first of all the ladies who led the Queen to the King.
'Now, mother, said Jehane to the old duenna, 'do for me what I bid you, and quickly. Get me brown juice for my skin, and a ragged kirtle and bodice, such as the Egyptians wear. Give me money to line it, and then let me go. All this was done. Jehane put on vile raiment which barely covered her, stained her fair face, neck, and arms brown, and let her hair droop all about her.
He had not heard because he had not been to Acre with the French host, but instead had gone pilgrim to Jerusalem, and thence with Lusignan to Cyprus. So now he took Martin Vaux by the windpipe and shook him till his eyes stared like agate balls. 'Tell me where Madame Jehane is, you clot, or I finish what I have begun, he said terribly. But Martin could tell him no more, for he was quite dead.
Richard set two black women to fan the flies off her without stopping once under pain of death; and having seen to the proper care of the child and other things, returned alone through the blanching streets, glorifying and praising God. In the church of Saint Lazarus of the Knights, on Lammas Day, the son of Richard and Jehane was made a Christian by the Abbot of Poictiers. He was named Fulke.
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