"I shall ever pray God's blessing on the lord of Rozel," she said, in a low voice.
"'Twould fit me no better than St.Ouen's sword fits his fingers.

I'll take thine own benison, lady--but on my cheek, not on my hand as this day before at four of the clock." His big voice lowered.

"Come, come, the hand thou kissed, it hath been the hand of a friend to thee, as Raoul Lempriere of Rozel said he'd be.

Thy lips upon his cheek, though it be but a rough fellow's fancy, and I warrant, come good, come ill, Rozel's face will never be turned from thee.

Pooh, pooh! let yon soldier-priest shut his eyes a minute; this is 'tween me and thee; and what's done before the world's without shame." He stopped short, his black eyes blazing with honest mirth and kindness, his breath short, having spoken in such haste.
Her eyes could scarce see him, so full of tears were they; and, standing on tiptoe, she kissed him upon each cheek.
"'Tis much to get for so little given," she said, with a quiver in her voice; "yet this price for friendship would be too high to pay to any save the Seigneur of Rozel." She hastily turned to the men who had rescued Michel and Buonespoir.
"If I had riches, riches ye should have, brave men of Jersey," she said; "but I have naught save love and thanks, and my prayers too, if ye will have them." "'Tis a man's duty to save his fellow an' he can," cried a gaunt fisherman, whose daughter was holding to his lips a bowl of conger-eel soup.
"'Twas a good deed to send us forth to save a priest of Holy Church," cried a weazened boat-builder with a giant's arm, as he buried his face in a cup of sack, and plunged his hand into a fishwife's basket of limpets.
"Aye, but what means she by kissing and arm-getting with a priest ?" cried a snarling vraic-gatherer.