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Updated: May 28, 2025
Her children would inherit it and play about the fair and fruitful fields as she had done they, too, could be taught to love the memory of the old knight, the Sieur Amadis de Jocelin ah! but surely it was the spirit of the Sieur Amadis himself that held her back and prevented her from doing his name and memory grievous wrong!
Past and Present, suggested by a visit to the poorhouse of St. Ives and by reading the chronicle of Jocelin de Brakelond, was undertaken as a duty, while he was mainly engaged on a greater work, the duty he felt laid upon him to say some thing that should bear directly on the welfare of the people, especially of the poor around him.
Robin was reading with exemplary patience and considerable difficulty one of the old French poetry books belonging to the "Sieur Amadis de Jocelin," and Priscilla's small glittering needle flew in and out the open- work stitchery of a linen pillow-slip she was mending as deftly as any embroideress of Tudor times.
Profoundly impressed by this knowledge of detail derived from sources which had brought me no intelligence, I handed the note to the negro, telling him how to proceed, and instructing him before starting from the station to search all the procurable papers of the last few days, and to return in case he found in any of them a notice of the death of Sir Jocelin Saul.
Inadvertently they had walked beyond the orchard and were now on the very edge of the little thicket where the tomb of the Sieur Amadis de Jocelin glimmered pallidly through the shadow of the leaves. Innocent quickened her steps. "Come!" she said. He followed her reluctantly.
"And so Jocelyn the painter is the lineal descendant of the BROTHER of your Jocelin! the knight who disappeared and took to farming in the days of Elizabeth!" he said "Upon my word, it's a quaint bit of history and coincidence almost too romantic for such days as these!" Innocent smiled. "Is romance at an end now?" she asked. Harrington looked at her kindly. "Almost!
Only that very morning she had made one of her many pilgrimages down to the venerable oak beneath whose trailing branches the Sieur Amadis de Jocelin lay, covered by the broad stone slab on which he had carved his own likeness, and she had put a little knot of the "Glory" roses between his mailed hands which were folded over the cross on his breast, and she had said to the silent effigy: "It is the last day of the haymaking, Sieur Amadis!
But, in fact, he supposed the owner of the stone to be himself seeking a secure hiding-place for it, and is resolved at all costs on knowing the secret. And again in the vaults beneath the house Sir Jocelin reports that Ul-Jabal "holds the lantern near the ground, with his head bent down": can anything be better descriptive of the attitude of search?
The window looked not upon the garden, but out upon the fields and a suggestive line of dark foliage edging them softly in the distance, away down there, under a huge myriad-branched oak, slept the old knight Sieur Amadis de Jocelin and his English rustic wife, the founders of the Briar Farm family.
The time is now seven o'clock: seven of the evening, I think, not of the morning; the houses of business in London are therefore closed. But why not send my man, Ham, with a letter by train to the private address of the person from whom you obtained the diary, telling him to hasten immediately to Sir Jocelin Saul, and on no consideration to leave his side for a moment?
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