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 were pampered with roast meat, milk, and the finest bread. Bitterly would she take on, if one were ill-used or dead. In short, she was all conscience and tender heart.

To speak of her features: her nose was long but well-shaped; her eyes light, and grey as glass; her mouth delicately small, soft and red, and her forehead fair and broad. For dress she wore a neatly-made cloak, and a carefully-crimped neckerchief; on her arm was a pair of beads of small coral, garnished with green, from which depended a handsome gold brooch, with a great A engraved upon it, and underneath, the motto, 'Amor vincit omnia.' (Love overcomes all things.)

In her train was another, who acted as her chaplain; also three Priests.

The next in succession was a, one well calculated to rule his order. He was a bold rider, and fond of hunting. A manly man, and worthy to have been an abbot. Many a capital horse had he in stall: and as he rode along, one could hear his bridle gingling in the whistling wind like the distant chapel bells.