Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-10-11


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Richard Sans Pear. Prologue.
The Lord of Clairnarais had departed for the
chase at the matin hour. The lady, his wife, occu-
pied the leisure of long autumnal evening in EN-
brodering, in her oratory, veil of cloth Of gold,
precious tissue dedicated ornament to the
miraculous chase of the blessed Saint Berlin Her
tirewomen worked around her iii silence, for their
mistress was too stately to converse with them,
even to permit their voices to be heard, save when
she commanded.
For more than an hour the breeze had ceased to
bear to the castle the last tones of the curfew,
sounded from the belfry of st. Omer, village a.
bout half league distant, when suddenly the blast
of a horn was heard at the postern of the castle-
There was something indescribably wild and SIN
pular in the sound, which caused the attendants TO
shudder as the sound reached their ears. A page
who fastened to ascertain the cause, returned and
informed his mistress that knight of lofty bearing
calling himself the Lord Brudemer, craved her hos
pitaty
If some poor peasant in mortal peril had been
mourning in the edge Of the fosse, the lady of
Clairmarais would not have permitted the draw
bridge to be lowered, that he might find an asylum
in the castle; but not SO with noble lord. She
ordered him to be admitted into the chateau, and
conducted into her presence.
In the meantime as custom demanded, she pro-
ceeded with her own hands to prepare the hippo
cras which she always offered to guest in token of
welcome and she had scarcely poured the bever-
npe into q goblet when the Lord Brudemer in
troduced by the page. He approached the lady
with that noble and becoming courtesy which dis
tingushes knights of lofty lineage, and began by
politely thanking her for the hospitality she had be-
slowed on him.
al lost my way to this domain" said he: "A
short time since bewailed the alarm Of my steed,
which separated me from my train, bewildered me
amidst marshes and ravines hard by this forest, but
since have the happiness of being admitted to the
presence of such marvellous beauty, regard ia
tigue danger and anxiety no longer"
At first there was something rough and disagree
able in the voice of the stranger, but the Impress
ion was speedily removed by the grace which min
gled in his manner.
= The trewomen, who in conformity with the GUS
tom Of the time, had Withdrawn to the end of the
hall, so that they could perceive all that passed
without being able to hear any portion of the con-
versaton, remarked in whispers to each other OF
the rich apparel of Brudemer, his elegant Ournlue
the regularity of his features, and the wild express
ion of his fiery gances.
1t was not surprising, therefore, that the lady il
the castle should find an ineXpresslble charm in thu
society of her guest when it is considered that sht
had no other society than vassals of lowly birth
whose discourse was confined to tedious recitals o
the battles and Journeys, in which the old lord, he
husband, mingled, and who shone far more as
warrior in the field, than gGlliard in the hall.
Skinfully availing himself of these advantages
Brudemer soon mingled in his conversation NOR
of flattery and tenderness, than even the chiyari
manners of the time permitted, while the lady, usu
ally so proud and disdainlul, subdued by powe
she could not resist listened at first without indg
nation, and afterwards with an emotion, which cor
stantly increased.
Placing himself as if accidentally in posltio
which concealed the movement from the tirewome
he took possession Of fair hand which was nj
Withdrawn, and raised it tenderly to his lips.
would be difficult to describe the sensation Of III
lldy-a fierce and terrible fire painfully circulate
in her veins--it pressed upon her brow it strul
gled in her heaving chest. She experienced nor
of that delicious anguor, that indescribabe intoX
cation, the sweet, yet cruel symptoms of love;
was rather like the agony, the cold and shuddern
chill of a dying sinner, or the horrible stupelaco
with which pilgrim beholds fastened upon him Il
mortal gaze of basillsk.
In her confusion the lady Of Claimants PERM
ted the veil which she was embroder1ng, to fall
sob! if such n scarf were granted to me-" sa
Brudemer " if she whose fair hands have fashion'
it would accept me for her champion, how maj
lances would SILVER in her honor on the bait
field and in the tournament"
She snatched tup with convulsive moyemel
and said, " It's yours" Brudemer carried ii to h
lips TO conceal a horrid smile which he could n
suppress, but he suddenly cast it from him with
shudder of terror, as is it had been living fire..
Now, the Chaplain had examined it that very ev
ming after vespers-and while his hands were ST
moist with holy water.
Quickly recovering from this emotion, Brudem
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