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Odo of Bayeux and Fitz-Osborne were there likewise, as also Robert of Mortain and Pevensey. A large coffer, called "the trunk," not unlike the box in which prisoners appear in modern courts of justice, stood in the midst; and therein, pale with illness and worn by mental distress, yet still undaunted in the spirit, stood Wilfred of Aescendune.
Besieging engines. The Duke of Lancaster's sow. Gunpowder. Story of the Welsh knight, Evan. Siege of Mortain. Situation of the castle. Evan's hostility to the English. Hatred of the English against Evan. John Lamb. John Lamb arrives at Mortain. His reception by Evan. State of the siege. Curious manners and customs. John Lamb accomplishes his purpose. Death of Evan.
Then answered Sir Jocelyn: "My lord Ivo, thou wert upon a time our honoured guest within Mortain, thou didst with honeyed word and tender phrase woo our fair young Duchess to wife. But and heed this, my lord! when Helen the Beautiful, the Proud, did thy will gainsay, thou didst in hearing of divers of her lords and counsellors vow and swear to come one day and seek her with flaming brands.
If we had approached Vire from the west, by way of Villedieu and St. Sever, we should have had even finer views than by way of Mortain; but Villedieu is at present more deplorable than Mortain in its domestic arrangements, and the inn is to be avoided by all cleanly people; however, with the completion of the railway from Vire to Granville, we are promised much better things.
Betimes they crossed the marches into Mortain, but it was late evening ere they saw at last the sleepy manor of Blaen, its white walls and steepy roofs dominated by its one square watch-tower, above which a standard, stirring lazily in the gentle air, discovered the red lion of Pentavalon.
According to this evidence, his two half brothers, the children of his mother by her marriage with Herlwin de Conteville, had been most richly provided for: Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, as Earl of Kent, and Robert, Count of Mortain, with a princely domain in the south-west as Earl of Cornwall.
"Madame," replied the King, "I shall not listen. I require your silence. If I have it in me, I command it. I know what I have done." "You know nothing," said the lady, beginning to tremble. "You are a fool." "May be," said King Richard, with a little shrug, "but I am a king in Fontevrault." 'The Count of Mortain began to wag his head about and pluck at the morse of his cope.
See to it that ye find her, therefore, else will I myself seek her through the length and breadth of Mortain until I find her aye, with lighted torches, if need be!" "And dare he threaten us?" cried the Duchess, white hands clenched. "Aye, doth he, lady," nodded Godric, garrulous and grim.
To those who wish to "do" all the sights of Mortain there is the Chapel of St Michael, which stands high up on the margin of a great rocky hill, but the building having been reconstructed about fifty years ago, the chief attraction to the place is the view, which in tolerably clear weather, includes Mont St Michel towards which we are making our way.
There are railways, branch railways certainly, which lead to both; there is no difficulty in getting to either, and Mortain at least, the one most closely connected with our own history, is very well worth going to indeed. The position of Mortain, to say nothing else, is certainly one of the most beautiful to be found in any region which does not aspire to the sublimity of mountain scenery.
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