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"Greeting to thee, my lord Duke of Mortain, and to thy lovely lady wife," spake a cheery voice, and the speaker, lifting his vizor, behold! it was Sir Benedict. "I go in mine own armour to-day, Beltane, that haply thy noble father shall know me in the press. Ha, see where he ordereth his line, 'twas ever so his custom, I mind me in four columns with archers betwixt.
'You! he said, 'you! John put out his hands. Oh, sire, Madame is in the right. I am a wicked man. I must make my brother amends. He must be saved. King Philip scratched his head. 'Who is in the dark if not I? I will deal with you presently, Mortain. But you, Madame, he turned hotly on the lady, 'you must be plainer. What is your zeal for the King of England?
Thus spake he, his voice loud, his speech quick and fevered. "Indeed, thou'rt sick, my lord nor do I fear thee, thou noble son of noble father!" "My father! Forsooth he liveth in Holy Cross Thicket within Mortain; he bade me beware of women and the ways of women. So do I know thee witch, thou golden Helen.
Holy Crosse!" rose high above the flagging sound of "Ha Rou! Ha Rou! Notre Dame!" "Per la resplendar De," cried William. "Our soldiers are but women in the garb of Normans. Ho, spears to the rescue! With me to the charge, Sires D'Aumale and De Littain with me, gallant Bruse, and De Mortain; with me, De Graville and Grantmesnil Dex aide! Notre Dame."
He completed the conquest of Britanny, and concluded a treaty of marriage between his son Geoffrey and its heiress Constance. The Count of Blois was won at a cost of £500 a year. Mortain was bought from the Count of Boulogne. "Broad and deep ditches were made between France and Normandy." A frontier castle was raised at Beauvoir.
"Who art thou and what?" he said. "Nay, did I not tell thee at the first? I am Helen hast thou not known? I am Helen Helen of Mortain." "Thou thou art the Duchess Helen?" said Beltane with stiffening lips, "thou the Duchess and I a smith!" and he laughed, short and fierce, and would have turned from her but she stayed him with quivering hands.
At Mortain the usual central tower of a great Norman church could not be; but neither has Saint Evroul the two Western towers of Saint-Lo and Séez; the arrangement designed was rather a development of the side towers common in the smaller churches of the district. A tower on each side was designed and begun.
Why, in the happy olden days, before all these traitors and assassins ruled in France, M. and Mme. la Marquise lived only for the child, and then to see him dying yes, dying, there was no shutting one's eyes to that awful fact M. le Vicomte de Mortain was dying of starvation and of disease.
"O dear and gracious lady!" he cried, "Genevra hath told me! And is it true thou hast promised me a place within thy court at fair Mortain is it true thou wilt lift me up that I may wed with one so much o'er me in station is it true thou wilt give me my Genevra, my heart's desire all unworthy though I be I O " And behold!
At Mortain the same simple arcade runs round nave, choir, and apse without break of any kind. Within the building the effect of this austere and untouched simplicity no one at Mortain has altered a window or added a chapel is perfectly satisfactory. Many buildings are larger and more enriched; not many can be said to be more perfect wholes.
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