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A Monk of Fife

CHAPTER XIII--OF THE FIGHTING AT LES AUGUSTINS AND THE PROPHECY OF THE
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Go back, and bear my words to the captains," quoth she; and then, turning to us, who looked on her in amazement, she said-- "Do ye all rise right early, and more than ye have done to-day shall ye do.

Keep ever close by me in the mellay, for to-morrow I shall have much to do, and more than ever yet I did.

And to-morrow shall my blood leap from my body, above my breast, for an arrow shall smite here!" and she struck the place with her hand.
Thereon the knight, seeing that she was not to be moved, made his obeisance, and went back to them that sent him, and all we lay down to sleep while we might.
These words of the Maid I, Norman Leslie, heard, and bear record that they are true..


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