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'Sire, he said, 'there is a new strife between the Count of Poictou, "Yea-and-Nay," and the French King on this account: the Count repudiates Madame Alois. 'Now, why does he do that, Bertran? cried King Sancho, opening his eyes wide. 'Sire, it is because he pretends that his father, the old King, has done him dishonour. Says the Count, Madame Alois might be my stepmother, never my wife.
'He will think the job a light one, and we shall nip him in the hills. The Bishop of Beauvais lent a hand, so did Adhémar Viscount of Limoges, and Achard the lord of Chaluz, not because he desired, but because he was forced by Limoges his suzerain. Another forced labourer was Sir Gilles de Gurdun, who had been found by Saint-Pol doing work in Poictou and won over after a few trials.
At the barbican all the Aquitanians except Richard dismounted, and all stayed about him while a herald went forward to tell the King who was come in. The King knew very well who it was, but chose not to know it; he kept the herald long enough to make his visitors chafe, then sent word that the Count of Poictou would be received, but alone.
By this means, the King of France found it more easy to conquer those numerous provinces from England, than to subdue a Duke of Normandy or Guienne, a Count of Anjou, Maine, or Poictou.
Oy, Deus! cried King Sancho, pale with amazement, 'and are all these thrones in arms, lighting candles against Count Richard? 'It is so indeed, sire, says Bertran; and King Sancho frowned, with this comment 'There seems little chivalry here, take it as you will. Next he inquired, where was the Count of Poictou? Bertran was ready. 'He rages his lands, sire, like a leopard caged.
'Come, come, he said, 'you have shown yourself a brave girl these two days. It is not every maid can sacrifice herself for a Count of Poictou, the eldest son of a king. Come, come, let us have no more of this. He hoped, no doubt, to brace her by a roughness which was far from his nature; and it is possible that he succeeded in heading off a mutiny of the nerves.
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