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Leaning far out over the window-sill, she gazed long and lovingly across the quiet stretches of meadowland, shining white in the showered splendour of the moon the tall trees the infinite and harmonious peace of the whole scene, then, shutting the lattice, she pulled the curtains across it, and taking her lit candle, went to her secluded inner sleeping- chamber, where, in the small, quaintly carved four-poster bed, furnished with ancient tapestry and lavendered linen, and covered up under a quilt embroidered three centuries back by the useful fingers of the wife of Sieur Amadis de Jocelin, she soon fell into a sound and dreamless slumber.
Jocelyn explained to me, is a necklet of pearls traditionally believed to have been given by the founder of the house, Amadis de Jocelin, to his wife on their wedding-day. It has been worn by every bride of the house since. I hope yes I very much hope it will be worn by the young lady who now inherits it."
Carlyle quotes Jocelin on Abbot Samson, who says that the monks of St. Edmundsbury were compelled to submit their choice to Henry II., who, looking at the committee of monks somewhat sternly, said: "You present to me Samson; I do not know him; had it been your prior, whom I do know, I should have accepted him; however, I will now do as you wish. But have a care of yourselves.
Three minutes sufficed him to reach it he looked into the little room, the room which had formerly been the study of the "Sieur Amadis de Jocelin" and there seated at the old oak table with her head bowed down upon her hands and her hair covering her as with a veil, was Innocent.
What she had dreamed of as greatness, now seemed vain and futile. The "Amadis de Jocelin" of the sixteenth century had taught her to love literature to believe in it as the refiner of thought and expression, and to use it as a charm to inspire the mind and uplift the soul, but the Amadis de Jocelyn of the twentieth had no such lessons to teach.
In 1192 Jocelin, Bishop of Glasgow, granted to the monks of Melrose the church of Hassindean, with its lands, tithes, and other emoluments, "for the maintenance of the poor and of pilgrims coming to the house of Melrose." From this cause the old tower of Hassindean was called "Monks' Tower," and the farm adjoining the church is still called "Monks' Croft."
And as she doesn't go to her Briar Farm now, I daresay she'll even forget her fetish of a knight, the 'Sieur Amadis de Jocelin'!"
Then I resumed my seat by the side of Zaleski. 'As I have told you, he said, 'I am fully convinced that our messenger has gone on a bootless errand. I believe you will find that what has really occurred is this: either yesterday, or the day before, Sir Jocelin was found by his servant I imagine he had a servant, though no mention is made of any lying on the marble floor of his chamber, dead.
She stretched out her arms as though to embrace some invisible treasure in the air "Priscilla! ... Priscilla!" Then as Priscilla took her gently round the waist and tried to calm her she began to laugh again. "The old motto! you remember it? the motto of the Sieur Amadis de Jocelin! 'Mon coeur me soutien! You know what it means 'My heart sustains me. Yes and you know why his heart is so strong?
Something of this kind happened to Innocent after her meeting with the painter who bore the name of her long idealised knight of France, Amadis de Jocelin. She soon learned that he was a somewhat famous personage, famous for his genius, his scorn of accepted rules, and his contempt for all "puffery," push and patronage, as well as for his brusquerie in society and carelessness of conventions.
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