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For this there was ample time, and Malcolm had arranged his hair, and brushed away the dust from his gown, washed his face and hands, and made himself look more like an Oxford bachelor, and less like a begging clerk, than he had of late judged it prudent to appear, ere Ralf took him to the great hall, where he found Lord Northumberland and the chief gentlemen of his household, with his mother, Lady Percy, and his young wife, together with their ladies, assembling for the reception of their royal guests.
'He bade us lay him there at the King's feet; and as it was the readiest way to a priest, we did his bidding. 'My poor Malcolm! sighed James; and he and Bedford hastened to obey the summons. There was time on the way for Ralf Percy to give them the particulars.
He fell into a mood of depression such as had not come upon him since he passed the border, thinking himself despised by all for being ill-favoured and ill-dressed, and chafing, above all, at the gay contempt he fancied in young Ralf Percy's eye.
Everybody pressed to look at it, while she stood blushing, coy and unwilling to display the small egg-shaped watch of the kind recently invented at Nuremberg. Sir Ralf observed that the young lady showed a comely shamefast maidenliness, and therewith bowed himself out of the room. Cicely laughed with impatient scorn.
'So, muttered Malcolm to Ralf Percy, 'we are passed over in the self- same matter for which these fellows are knighted. 'Tush! answered Percy; 'I'd scorn to be confounded with a couple of clowns like them! Moreover, he added, with better reason, 'their valour was more exercised than ours, inasmuch as they thought there was treachery, and we did not.
But I must close up this chronicle of his fall with an event that concerned myself, which, as it were, flowed straight out of it. For if I had not journeyed to Normandy, and been caught on my way first by Le Grand Sarrasin, I suppose I should never have been made known unto my father. And it is of my father, Ralf de Bessin, that I must therefore tell.
At that moment a hasty step approached; the door was opened with scant ceremony, and Ralf Percy, covered from head to foot with blood, hurried in breathless and panting. 'My lord Duke, your license! Here is Malcolm Stewart set upon in the forest by robbers and stabbed! 'Slain? Dead? cried both princes, springing up in horror. 'Alive still in the chapel asking for you, my lord, said Percy.
King James, in attending to Joan, had entirely forgotten his cousin; and Malcolm, doubtful and diffident, was looking hesitatingly at the gateway, when Ralf Percy called out, 'Ha! you there, this is our way. That is only for the royal folk; but there's good sack and better sport down here!
'I fear nothing, sharply answered Ralf. 'We'll stand by you, Sir, said Kitson to Ralf; 'but if ever there were foul treason
The air was so thick that it was not easy to see where were the sullen group of diggers presided over by the quondam duellists of Thirsk, Kitson and Trenton, now the most inseparable and impracticable of men; but James and his companions had ridden about two miles from the market-place, when Ralf Percy came out of the mist, exclaiming, 'Is it you, Sir King?
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