. Old love stories retold. ay rings his half-bored, half-impatient answer. - Father, saidAueassin, I marvel that you will be may God give me aught of my desire if Ibe made knight, or mount my horse, or face stourand battle wherein knights smite and are smittenagain, unless thou give me Nicolete, my truelove, that I love so well. . Father — cant you understand ? How strangeold people are! Dont you see how it is? Father, I marvel that you will be speaking!It is the eternal exclamation, the universal shrug,of youth confronted by these tedious old fools! Now Nicolete is no proper ma

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. Old love stories retold. ay rings his half-bored, half-impatient answer. - Father, saidAueassin, I marvel that you will be may God give me aught of my desire if Ibe made knight, or mount my horse, or face stourand battle wherein knights smite and are smittenagain, unless thou give me Nicolete, my truelove, that I love so well. . Father — cant you understand ? How strangeold people are! Dont you see how it is? Father, I marvel that you will be speaking!It is the eternal exclamation, the universal shrug,of youth confronted by these tedious old fools! Now Nicolete is no proper match for Aueassin,a great Counts son — though, naturally, inAucassins opinion, if she were Empress ofConstantinople or of Germany, or Queen ofFrance or England, it were little enough for her— because she is the slave girl of the Countsown Captain-at-arms, who had bought her ofthe Saracens, reared, christened and adopted heras his daughter-in-God. Aetually she is thedaughter of the King of Carthage, though noL 33 ].

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