This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVII OF THE STRANGER KNIGHT WHO CAME FROM THE NORTH, WHICH BRINGETH AN END TO THIS TALE T is far the outcast lad may flee, And wide the wanderer may roam; But soon or late, before he dee, He finds the way to his father's home. The Lay of Sir Marrok. HUGH and Agatha came no more, and a new ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVII OF THE STRANGER KNIGHT WHO CAME FROM THE NORTH, WHICH BRINGETH AN END TO THIS TALE T is far the outcast lad may flee, And wide the wanderer may roam; But soon or late, before he dee, He finds the way to his father's home. The Lay of Sir Marrok. HUGH and Agatha came no more, and a new life began for the Lady Irma--a lonely, irksome life. She was shut in and companionless. Her one-time friends were gone, for Sir Roger had slain Sir Morcar, and Father John ruled in the abbey. No longer might she ride thither for merrymaking. And in the castle were none but her serving-maids, her archers, and her daughter Gertrude. Between Gertrude and her mother was no affection, but only tyranny and suspicion. The mother kept the daughter close, watched her, checked her, and commanded her. Therefore she received not love, but patient service. Also there was no heartiness, for Gertrude could not but dislike her mother's ways. She sat silent in her presence, and Irma complained angrily of her sullenness. Yet it was not sullenness -- merely timidity and repression, for Gertrude was sweet and gentle. Thus Irma, bored and wrathful, chafed in her castle. And a constant cause for irritation there was, that the peasants refused her all supplies, but beat off her archers when they were sent for tithes. The lady might not send to the abbey, neither could she longer depend upon traveling merchants. For the road from the south ran through the village, and the peasants warned all travelers away, lest they should pay heavy toll. Sir Roger stopped the eastern road, and the son of Sir Simon the western. The wolf himself guarded, day and night, the road from the north. It was fortunate for Irma that Marrok had built the castle as a very granary, holding food...
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