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"Thus you shall know her, Galors," he said "A sliirl, somewhat

under the common size of the country, and overburdened with a curtain

of black hair; and a sullen, brooding girl who says little, and that

nakedly and askance; and in a pale face two grey eyes a-burning"

All this Galors knew better than his Abbot Now he asked, "But what is

her offence, father? For even with power of life and member the law of

the land has force, that neither htly away"

For this "put away" the Abbot thanked him with a look, and added, that

she was suspected of witchcraft, seeing Mald her mother was a

notorious witch, and the wench herself the byword and scorn of all the

country-side Sorcery, therefore, or incontinence--"whichever you

will," said he "Any stick will do to beat a dog with"

Galors hadbehind

all this, he was sure, knowing hiswith news, and watched hih the murder was out before he had taken

a dozen turns "Now, Galors," he said, in a new and short vein,

"listen to o, when I held this girl in my two hands I let slipslipt it indeed, it was gone until

this charter of ours brought it back fresh You knoe stand

here, you and I and the Convent-all of us at the disposition of her

ladyship A great lady,one, childless, it is

said, without heir of her own Morgraunt o to the Crown or Holy

Thorn and Gracedieu ain," put in Galors

"She is twice a ," the Abbot snapped hiave his first

shock "She is twice a , once against her will She will never

ain"