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Stewards and servants appeared, so torches, and a scuffle started Half a dozenin, furious at being rousted frouarded hileeful curses By the ti handsowo accusations so loudly that Hanna thought she would go deaf, the steward and servants off to one side, licking their wounds, and Lord Wichs--a dozen scarred, cocky, brash young noble hearth

"Why am I disturbed?" Alberada held a lariffin Flaed, she did not look like a woall, Wichwomen in my own hall? Is this how you repay me for my hospitality?"

"I haven’t had a woestured toward the sleeping platform casually, and for an instant one of his companions looked ready to leap back in "We can’t all be satisfied with sheep, like Eddo is" His comrades snickered "Anyway, they’re only common born I wouldn’t touch your clerics" This set off another round of snickering

"You are still drunk, and as sensible as beasts" Alberada’s stinging rebuke fell on insensible ears One of Wich his own crotch, quite overtaken by lust The sight of his pu hands made Hanna want to throw up Meanwhile, various armed servants had hurried up behind the biscop "Take theht, for I won’t allow the, they will leave to return to Duchess Rotrudis No doubt your mother will be more merciful than I, Wichman"

At thatthe other women He looked in that instant ready to leap in hian twisting the ends of his long htfully He beckoned to Brother Breschius and spoke to him in a low voice

"I pray you, Your Grace," said Breschius "Prince Bayan suggests that you punish Lord Wichman as you wish, after the war is over"

Alberada’s glare was frosty "In the est I protect arded her quizzically "Whores live in all city These I will pay for ofht Quan Wich men who think only of the and stupid," snapped Bayan, abruptly shoved to the end of his patience "But you fight good So in this season I need you Otherwise I throw you out to the wolves"

Wichh "If you need me so much, my lord prince," he drawled, "then I’ll set estured obscenely toward the watching servingwomen

Bayan rabbed Wichman by his shift and held him hard Wiche, but the Ungrian prince had righteous anger and true authority on his side; he’d commanded entire armies in the field and survived countless battles It took a tough soldier to live as long as he had, and he knew it So did Wiche s when they piss on my feet I knohere to find the slave er of yourshade, soht have said those words in a boasting way, but when Bayan said them, they burned

"To the barracks" Bayan released his grip on Wichuards surrounded Wichman and his cronies

"I cannot approve," said Alberada "These men should be punished, and banished"

"I need them," said Bayan "And so do you and this your city"

"It is in this way that war breeds evil, Prince Bayan, because both good and bad alike profit in evil ways and sow evil seeds and lapse into evil deeds, driven by desperation or what they call necessity"

"To your words I have no answer, Your Holiness I am only a man, not one of the saints"