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The old rascal blinked his eyes, jerking his head irl Then he said, "Love is there fast and sure She is all

for loving They call her Isoult la Desirous, you must know"

"Yes," said Prosper, "I do know it, for she has told me so already' "And to-ed,"

said Matt-o'-the-Moor

Prosper started and flushed, and-"That is a true gospel, brother," put in the friar "The Abbot allows at her expense; but there is worse than a gallows

to it What did I tell you of the Black Monks when you called 'em

White? There is a coal-black aallows

have her not It is Galors or gallows, fast and sure"

Prosper rubbed his chin, looked at the friar, looked at Matt, looked

at Isoult She neither lifted her head nor eyes, though the others had

h She stood like a saint on a church porch; he

thought her a desperate Magdalen

"Isoult, come here," said he She came as obediently as you please,

and stood before hiain,

"Isoult, look me in the face" Then she did as she was told, and her

eyes were unwinking and very wide open, full of dark She parted her

lips and sighed a little, shivering somewhat It seemed to him as if

she had been with the dead already and seen their kingdoed to-morrow?"

"Yes, lord," said Isoult in a whisper

"Or worse?"

"Yes, lord," she said again, quivering