Name: The Fool — Chapter 1
Author: H. C. Bailey

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 1 (1921)

“ THE FOOL
CHAPTER I PLAYING KNUCKLE-BONES THERE were dead in the courtyard and a noise. Across the morning twilight men shouted from tower to tower and blade clashed on mail where the last of the garrison sold blood for blood, and from the bowels of the castle came already the yells and crash of plundering. And the bells of the Abbey beyond the wall were ringing to matins.
Only one man was alive among the dead in the courtyard, and he sat on his heels in a corner and played knuckle-bones. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 1 (1921)

“ And while they talked and the light waned came from the valley the call of a woman, a long, despairing cry. The boy started up and ran out. "Oh, the mass! Lie close, say I, and off goes he. Who hath trouble enough ever goes to seek it."
"It was a woman," said Judith.
"What is the worth of a woman when men are born to be killed?"
Up the steep in the twilight came Jocelin, tottering, panting, so heavily the woman leaned upon him, and as they drew near the cave she swayed and stumbled and fell upon her face and lay still. The fool rolled her over and the children stood aghast. ”

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“ Bran whined.
"A man may be a fool yet have a man's spirit," and she rated him fiercely for serving a robber lord, a knight unknightly, a hunter of the weak, a foreigner—till the fool broke out in that queer laugh of his. ”

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“ Conjure up a fiend for them, and their souls cower and their joints are loosened. Yet what fiend could be more a fiend than man? I will believe in Mahound, ere I believe that any world hath worse than this. But Bran is a fool."
So he went lustily for the castle, and making a straight line passed those anxious horsemen, who kept to the track, and coming into the huddled little town of Malmesbury he hit upon some of Odo's men who had been drinking there, and mingling with them he entered the castle by the postern. ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 1 (1921)

“ You remember that Stephen was fighting to be King of England then, and his cousin, Matilda, who had been an Empress in Germany when she was a child, fought to be Queen, and all the country was ravaged by their wars and the barons who throve upon their wars. From sea to sea in England there was no law: what a man could not hide the sword took from him ”

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H. C. Bailey, The Fool — Chapter 1 (1921)

“ And thereafter a man must eat and be strong again." Into the cave he came, past the bewildered boy, and squatted down and took from his scrip a gammon of bacon and bread and cut. "Bran's pouch never goes empty till Bran's paunch is back by the larder. Eat, lady."
"I am not hungry, fool."
His long finger shot out. "Swear it! Na, na. Bran knows when a body is hungry. Bran has seen."
Eat they did then, and eating loosed tongues. They wanted to know if the Castle of Malmesbury was taken; what had befallen the garrison. "It is well with them. ”

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