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After Vespers that day Prosper demanded an audience of the Lady

Abbess, and had it He found her a handsome, venerable old lady, at

peace with all the world and, so far as that coh rank in it by right of

birth; she knehat it could do, and what not do, of good and evil

Now that she was old enough to call its denizens her children, she

folded her hands and played grandmother Naturally, therefore, she

knew Prosper by name; for that, as much as his frank looks, she made

him welcome She did not ask it, but he could see that she expected to

be enlightened upon the subject of Isoult--doubtful co made up his mind how much he could afford to tell

her, he did not waste tireetings of good co in this forest cannot see very far before his face, and

may make error worse by what he does to solve error If byshould befall him, he must not faint, but persist until

he has loosed not only the knot he has tied himself, but that as well

which he has raciously, waiting for him to be done with

phrases Prosper went on-"I found this damsel in the hands of a knave, who offered her a choice

of death or dishonour I took her into my own, and so far have spared

her either The rascal who had her now lies with a split gullet ues from here, in such a condition that he will trouble her no