What looked she like ?--and what said she ?" "I will tell you all the tale.

We were gathered there in the great hall.

There were perhaps a score of us; the Seigneur at the head of the council table, the Abbe Perigord on his right, and the Count of La Roche on his left.

There were two priests also present, and the chiefest knights and gentlemen of the town.

We had all been laughing gaily at the thought of what a village maid of but seventeen summers--or thereabouts--would feel on being introduced into the presence of such a company.