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Not a moment was lost; in order to make the flight swifter, they did the bidding of the queen. The gold is cleared from their purses; the riches are left for the enemy to seize. Some declare that Urse kept back the money, and strewed the tracks of her flight with copper that was gilt over.
But Athisl had from his boyhood been imbued with a hatred of liberality, and was so grasping of money, that he accounted it a disgrace to be called openhanded. Urse, seeing him so steeped in filthy covetousness, desired to be rid of him; but, thinking that she must act by cunning, veiled the shape of her guile with a marvellous skill.
Ellaline was enchanted with the old custodian, who talked much about "heart of oak," and when she ventured to remark that he "looked as if he were made of it," she and the old fellow himself both blushed amusingly. We came on through pretty, respectable-looking Williton, where lived Reginald Fitz Urse who helped murder St.
An expression of sheer wretchedness came into his listless, heavy eyes. "Urse, I've got to conquer my weakness now, or go under." She was eager to hold on to the secure forty thousand a year for his sake no less than for her own. She argued with him with all the adroitness of a mind as good in its way as his own. But she could not shake his resolution.
We women are used to it and the usual sort of man. But not your sort, Freddy and I'm so sorry for you." "I want her, Urse I want her," he groaned, and he was almost sobbing. "My God, I can't get on without her." "Now, Freddy dear, listen to me. You know she's 'way, 'way beneath you that she isn't at all what you've got in the habit of picturing her that it's all delusion and nonsense "
Or perhaps she's found some good provider who's willing to marry her." Norman sprang up, his eyes blazing, his mouth working cruelly. "By God!" he cried. "If I thought that!" His sister was alarmed. Such a man in such a delirium might commit any absurdity. He flung himself down in despair. "Urse, why can't I get rid of this thing? It's ruining me. It's killing me!"
ROLF, the son of Urse, retrieved the shame of his birth by signal deeds of valour; and their exceeding lustre is honoured with bright laudation by the memory of all succeeding time. For lamentation sometimes ends in laughter, and foul beginnings pass to fair issues. So that the father's fault, though criminal, was fortunate, being afterwards atoned for by a son of such marvellous splendour.
That's the devil of it." "You're looking particularly young to-night." "Same to you, Urse." "No, I'm not bad for thirty-four. People half believe me when I say I'm twenty-nine." She glanced complacently down at her softly glistening shoulders. "I've still got my skin." "And a mighty good one it is. Best I ever saw except one." She reflected a moment, then smiled. "I know it isn't Josephine's.
Do you think that I should wage a war of benefit if I should lead my troops thither? Smiling I answered that I thought not and he uttered these words: 'I love the welfare of France more than Mons. d' Ursé imagines, for instead of the one king that there is I would fain see six." The animus of this expression is clear.
On these words four knights of his household resolved to punish the archbishop, and, leaving the court secretly, they went over to England. They were Reginald Fitz Urse, William of Tracy, Hugh of Morville, and Richard le Breton.
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