Yet some may deem it but a glancing in my own eyes, from the blood flying to my head; howsoever it be, I had never seen the like before, nor have I seen it since, and, assuredly, the black branches and wild weeds were lit up bare and clear.
The tramp of the horses passed, there was no cry of "Pax vobiscum," no twang of bows, and slowly the ring of hoofs died away on the road to Chinon.

Then came a rustling of the boughs on the further side of the way, and a noise of footsteps stealthily crossing the road, and now I heard a low sound of weeping from the violer woman, that was crouching hard by where I lay.

Her man struck her across the mouth, and she was still.
"You saw it?
Saints be with us! You saw them ?" he whispered to Brother Thomas.
"Fool, had I not seen, would I not have given the word?
Get you gone, all the sort of you, there is a fey man in this company, be he who he will.

Wander your own ways, and if ever one of you dogs speak to me again, in field, or street, or market, or ever mention this night.

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