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Red Eve

CHAPTER XI
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Often afterward I sought to see that face, especially in the great fray of Crecy, but failed, in a case which with your leave I will narrate to you." Now when all that company understood the meaning of these outspoken words, they swayed to and fro and whispered like reeds in an evening wind.

Presently above this whispering a soft yet penetrating voice was heard to say: "If this English knight desires to study the poor face of Acour, de Noyon, and Cattrina, he who owns it is much honoured and prays your Excellency's leave to wait upon his pleasure." So saying a tall and noble-looking man, who wore the badge of a white swan worked in pearls upon his rich tunic, stepped forward out of the ring of courtiers and bowed, first to the Doge and next to Hugh.
De Cressi looked at his handsome face with its quick dark eyes and little, square-cut, black beard, and answered: "I thank you, Sir Edmund Acour, for I take it you are he.

Now I shall never forget you again, for though a man may shift his armour he cannot change his countenance"-- a saying at which de Noyon coloured a little and looked down uneasily.
"Cavalier de Cressi, he whom you seek is before you; we ourselves vouch for his identity," said the Doge.

"Now be pleased to set out your case." "My private case I thrust to one side," answered Hugh, Sir Geoffrey interpreting all the time, "for it is a matter between this Count, a certain lady and myself, and can wait.

That which I have to lay before you, Illustrious, has to do with my master the King of England, as whose champion I am here to-day.


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