[The Brethren by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Brethren CHAPTER Fifteen: The Flight to Emesa 7/27
Only he feared that there might be trouble with the people, who were pleased with the fighting, so held his hand. Then he bade you to the supper, whence you would not have returned; but when Sir Wulf said that he was hurt, I whispered to him that what he wished to do could best be done on the morrow at the wedding-feast when he was in his own halls, surrounded by his guards. "'Ay,' he answered, 'these brethren shall fight with them until they are driven into the gulf.
It will be a goodly sight for me and my queen to see.'" "Oh! horrible, horrible!" said Rosamund; while Godwin muttered: "I swear that I would have fought, not with his guards, but with Sinan only." "So he suffered you to go, and I left him also.
Before I went he spoke to me, bidding me bring the princess to him privately within two hours after we had supped, as he wished to speak to her alone about the ceremony of her marriage on the morrow, and to make her gifts.
I answered aloud that his commands should be obeyed, and hurried to the guest-castle.
There I found your lady recovered from her faintness, but mad with fear, and forced her to eat and drink. "The rest is short.
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