[The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cloister and the Hearth CHAPTER IV 7/13
Well, the coloured work was so beautiful I forgot all about the black and white. But next day, when all the other prizes had been given, they came to the writing, and whose name think you was called first ?" "Yours," said Kate. The others laughed her to scorn. "You may well laugh," said Gerard, "but for all that, Gerard Eliassoen of Tergou was the name the herald shouted.
I stood stupid; they thrust me forward.
Everything swam before my eyes.
I found myself kneeling on a cushion at the feet of the Duke.
He said something to me, but I was so fluttered I could not answer him.
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