Moreover, I tell you this that it may ease your pain and my conscience; I no longer seek you as my wife, whose bride is death.

I pray you, give to Wulf my love and blessing, and to Masouda, that truest and most sweet woman, say, or write, that I offer her the homage of my heart; that I thought of her in my last moments, and that my prayer is we may meet again where all crooked paths are straightened.

Rosamund, farewell; peace and joy go with you through many years, ay, and with your children's children.

Of Godwin I only ask you to remember this, that he lived serving you, and so died." She heard and stretched out her arms, and, none forbidding him, Godwin walked to where she stood.

Without lifting her veil she bent forward and kissed him, first upon the brow and next upon the lips; then with a low, moaning cry, she turned and fled from that gloomy place, nor did Saladin seek to stay her.