Gaston of Bearn joined his master the next day.

'Hasten, hasten, fair lord!' he cried out as soon as he saw him.

Richard looked as if he had never known the word.
'What news of Normandy, Gaston ?' 'The English are through, Richard.

The country swarms with them.

They hold Avranches, and now are moving south.' 'They are too late,' said Richard.