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Marpasse was up as soon as the first grey light began to spread above the hills, and it was possible for them to see their way. Denise had passed the night, lying with her head in Marpasse’s lap, and sleeping soundly despite her promise to remain awake. Marpasse had smiled, and let her sleep, trusting to her own ears and eyes to warn her of the approach of any peril1.
They were on the move while the land was still half in shadow, for Marpasse was as eager as any man to let Earl Simon know the truth about the King. Standing2 and looking back on Lewes as the dawn increased, Marpasse could gauge3 how cheaply the King and his captains held their enemy. There were Gascons too with Henry, and the Gascons should have known what manner of man they had to deal with in Earl Simon. Yet the green slopes of the downs, gleaming with dew as the golden light of the dawn began to play on them, were utterly4 deserted5. The King’s host lay snoring after its debauch6, without a single troop of horse to patrol the hills. Only on the hill that was afterwards called Mount Harry7 could Marpasse distinguish what appeared to be a solitary8 sentinel. And he, too, was lying like a grey stone on the hillside, asleep at his post while the sun made the east splendid.
Marpasse clapped her hands.
“The fools!” she said; “come, there is no time to lose. We ought to bear more yonder towards the west. They will be on the watch for us. I know of one man who will have been awake all night.”
She looked at Denise and saw her redden.
“Give him one kiss, heart of mine,” she said, “for a man fights the better with his woman’s kiss upon his mouth.”
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