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Updated: June 12, 2025


"But, count," spoke up one of the leudes, "what do you propose to do with those cursed Vagres, the little Vagress and the handsome witch whom we brought prisoners with us from the combat at the fastnesses of Allange? What manner of torture will you inflict upon them?"

Ronan's purpose was served so long as the holy man limited himself to throwing Neroweg and his leudes into consternation, but as soon as the bishop evinced an inclination to call them to his aid, the Vagre seized him. The sudden move choked off Cautin's sentence before he finished, the rotund and heavy bishop slipped, and tumbling down from branch to branch fell almost upon the back of the count.

After pointing at the slave, Neroweg turned to his leudes with cruel hilarity and said: "Hi hi hi we shall now have a good laugh. You old toothless dog, why do you not hold the candle straight?" "Seigneur, I am very old my arm grows tired despite myself." "So, then, you are tired?" "Alas! Yes, seigneur!" "Yet you know that he who does not hold up his torch straight is regaled with fifty lashes!"

Hardly had Ronan left when the cry of the Vagres was heard attacking the leudes. At the cries, Odille threw herself distracted into the arms of the hermit, hid her face on his breast and sobbed aloud: "They will kill him! They will kill him!" "Courage, Franks! Courage, my sons in God!" shouted Cautin from the cart-wheel to which he was bound fast. "Exterminate those Moabites!

"And like so many others you consented to the servitude? You accepted the hard conditions?" "What else was I to do? How could I resist the count and his leudes?

"Alas, the fear of being devoured will force him to defend himself as best he may; in all your life you will not have seen such a spectacle." "And you, Neroweg," said Sigefrid, more than any other of the leudes a stickler for the count's dignity, "do you allow the bear to have a club? You alone have the right to say here: 'I will."

A little distance behind these distinguished personages came his bodyguard which consisted of leudes and other warriors armed cap-a-pie. Their tufted casques, their polished and brilliant cuirasses and greaves glittered in the sun. Their spirited horses pranced under their rich caparisons.

Is it the brilliant army which you lead at your heels that makes you so audacious?" queried the Prince's favorite, nodding towards Neroweg's ramshackle leudes. "If that band is up to its looks, we are lost!" Two or three of the count's leudes who had been drawing nearer, and heard the insolent jokes of Chram's favorite grumbled aloud in angry accents: "We do not like to see Neroweg bantered!"

Twelve well rounded oaken beams support the portico; it leads directly into the mahl, as these barbarous chiefs style the tribunal where they dispense their seigniorial justice a vast, spacious hall, in the rear of which, and raised on a platform, is the seat of the count, and the benches of the leudes who assist him in the ceremony.

His men bound our hands, and the leudes were taking us back to the count when these good Vagres killed our captors and set us free. By my faith! Vagres we shall now be all of us I, my sons and the other slaves whom you see yonder. Will you have us, ye bold runners of the night?" "Yes, yes!" cried the companions of the colonist.

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