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He dressed her in green silk because she was fresh-coloured and had

black hair If she had been pale, as when he first knew her, and as

she was to be again before he knew her no more, the dress would have

been red, depend upon it He put a gold ring on her finger, a jewel on

her forehead, a silverat her girdle Her cha history of Aristotle and a princess of Cyprus;--she had tomen to wait upon her, to tire her hair in neays and set new

crowns upon it; she had a close garden of her oith roses and a

fountain, grass lawns, peacocks She had pages to serve her kneeling,

ave her a lap-dog

Finally he kissed her and said-"You are to be queen of this place, Isoult the Much-Desired"

All this the Abbot did This also he did--his crowning piece He

caused her to wear round her waist a girdle ht steel in

which was a staple To the staple he fixed a fine steel chain--a toy,

a mimicry of prisons, but in fact a chain--and the other end of a

chain was fixed to a , it could go through the keyhole--and did--but it was a

chain Wherever the girl went, to the garden, to table, to music, to

bed, abroad, or to Mass, she was chained to a monk and a monk to her

The Abbot Richard rested on the seventh day, conte his labours