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Oh, my father
--my father!"
This muttered invocation did not escape the blunt but kindly-natured Englishman, and he brushed the back
of his large hand
over his rough features ere he could proceed.
"It is Richard of England's further pleasure," he said at length,
"that you have speech with a holy man; and I have met on the
passage hither with a Carmelite friar, who may fit you for your
passage. He waits without, until you are in a frame of mind to
receive him."
"Let it be instantly," said the knight. "In this also Richard is
kind. I cannot be more fit to see the good father at any time
than now; for life and I have taken farewell, as two travellers
who have arrived at the crossway, where their roads separate."
"It is well," said De Vaux slowly and solemnly; "for it irks me
somewhat to say that which sums my message. It is King Richard's
pleasure that you prepare for instant death."
"God's pleasure and the King's be done," replied the knight
patiently. "I neither contest the justice of the sentence, nor
desire delay of the execution.


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