Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1899 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. A TIMELY WARNING. It was Ela, the little maid, whom I had to thank for my escape. We had become very good friends, though for all she was so small she did not scruple to jibe at me, calling me slow and dull of wit when I did not happen to understand. She herself was quick beyond all I ever knew; a word, nay, a look, would reveal to her your meaning. It was one of my duties to give the damsel each day some practice upon the harp, when it was my turn to laugh if she did not touch the strings aright. Yet did I jest at her but once, and was sorry for it after, she took her failures so to heart. On this particular day when we halted for the evening upon an open waste, I looked for her in vain, neither could I see Jocellus. Of this last I was glad; for had he known she missed her lesson he might have punished her. That last night dwells in my memory still. When Jocellus came back, he brought with him the absent member of our company. He had met him on the way, he said. Though we had been hard put to it all day even to gain a meal, yet were they all in merry heart, laughing and jesting about the fine things that were to come to pass in London. I said not even then that I meant to quit them there, nor a word about Walter, the merchant. Indeed, I suspected nothing, and knew no reason why they should betray me; surely, my good angel laid a ringer upon my tongue. After a time, seeing Ela glance toward me with some impatience, I sat down by her side. "In what have I offended now, gracious damsel?" I asked, with a laugh. "It is you who ran away; the fault this time is surely not with me." Yet as I saw her close, a look of terror in her eyes made me add quickly: "Jocellus has not been promising you another beating?" "Nay," she returned, almost in a whisper....
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