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The large majority of our companions, however, have organized a lay community around the monastery; they married either women who ran the Vagrery with us or daughters of neighboring colonists. I wedded little Odille, while the Master of the Hounds took the bishopess for his mate.
"Sigefrid, I have unlocked the railing," said one of the Franks; "shall we begin with the men or the women?" "I shall begin with the men!" cried Karadeucq, planting his dagger in the breast of Sigefrid. "I also!" cried the Master of the Hounds, stabbing another one of the Franks. "Vagrery! Vagrery! To us, all brave slaves! Death to the Franks! War upon the seigneurs! Liberty to the slaves!
I told you then how, at Beziers, I was an all the more inveterate disguiser at the calends because the priests forbade them; and that at those saturnalia I especially impersonated bears, and so well as to be taken for one. I was thereupon unanimously chosen bear in Vagrery, and But I suppose you think that I am talking too much. It is my only refuge! It diverts me!
And so they were all sentenced to-day?" "The mahl assembled at noon. The King's son and our holy bishop were present. Ronan the Vagre and the hermit-laborer were first put to the torture." "Then they must have denied that they had run the Vagrery, did they?" "No. Ronan, the accursed bandit, on the contrary, boasted that he was a Vagre." "Why, then, the torture?"
The artisans whom slavery and want had driven to the Vagrery, resumed their former occupations, and now work for the colony; others tend the fields, the vines and the cattle. As to myself, I have become a good husbandman, and my little Odille, who since her childhood was accustomed to tend flocks of sheep in the mountains where she was born has turned to that occupation.
We gathered in a semi-circle before him; many of the women who joined us in running the Vagrery sat down at his feet on the grass. Odille and the bishopess were foremost among these.
"And this other thrust is for you the damsel shall be mine!" "Hit! That is for her roguish eyes!" "Parried! Mine remains the daisy!" "I'm wounded! Help, my belle!" "I die! Good-bye to my love!" The wounded Vagre was attended to; the dead one was covered with leaves. Honor to the brave who will be born anew in yonder worlds, and long live the feasts of the Vagrery!
A sword!" "Here is one! What will you do with it, beautiful bishopess in Vagrery?" "I shall fight beside my Vagre!" Saying this the bishopess seized the proffered weapon like a Gallic woman of ancient days, and dashed forward upon the foe. "Little Odille, you wait here for me.
I at last enjoy my day of freedom and of love. Long live the Vagrery!" "Shameless and sacrilegious woman! Accursed burgess! You shall burn for this in the everlasting flames of hell!" But Cautin's vituperation and threats were idle.
"Here we have for you linen, cloth, dresses, covers, mattresses, bags of grain, full pouches, provisions of all sorts. Give, my Vagres! Give, Odille, to these poor people! Give, bishopess of the Vagrery! Give and give again!" "Take take, sisters!" said the bishopess with eyes moist with compassionate tears, as she helped the Vagres to distribute the booty taken at her house. "Take, sisters!
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