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Aymery had searched the hillsides that day for a blue surcoat shining with golden suns, but since Gaillard had charged among Prince Edward’s spears, he was miles away on the heels of the Londoners while the men of the White Cross were driving the King back in rout1 upon Lewes town.
But Simon had not forgotten to look for the return of the Prince. He had gathered the pick of his knights2 and men-at-arms together, and when they brought him news of the plundering3 of his camp, he smiled and bided5 his time. Steady and motionless, a mass of steel half hidden by a rise in the ground, De Montfort’s cavalry6 waited in the evening light for the coming of the Prince.
And a riotous7 and disordered troop it was that marched back towards Lewes after plundering the Barons’ camp. Edward and his lords seemed to have accepted their victory as assured, and never doubted but that the White Cross had been trodden into the dust. The scene that stretched before them, flooded by the evening sunlight, was deceptive8 in the extreme. De Warenne’s banner still flew from the castle, and that of the King from the bell tower of St. Pancras. There were scattered9 bodies of armed men moving over the slopes and about the town, and the dead strewing10 the field made no confession11 of victory or defeat.
It was then that the most tragic12 thing of the day happened, for the mob of fighting men under the Prince, marching as they pleased, had some hundreds of women
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pricking
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sneering
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hoarsely
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axe
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windings
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