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Kate Succory went no farther than the nearest cluster of gorse on the slope of the moor1. She threw herself face downwards2 on a patch of short, sweet turf, where rabbits had been feeding, and plucked at the grass with her fingers, twisting her body to and fro with the lithe3 and supple4 movements of a restless animal. Her hair came loose, and she shook it down upon her shoulders.
There was rebellion in her eyes.
“He is a good man. Why should he not have what other men crave5 for? And I love him. There is not a man so tall and fine in all the Forest.”
She rested her elbows on the ground and her chin in her two hands, and stared at the gorse bushes.
“Geraint would not have hesitated. Pah! that black rat! How the girls would laugh at me! I don’t care. Why did God make him a priest?”
She frowned fiercely and bit at her lower lip, the elemental passion in her refusing to be dominated by the rules of the Church.
“He is a good man. No; I will not go away. Priestcraft is all wrong. The Lollards say so; I could argue it out with him. As if living down there in a priory made men good! Bah! what nonsense! Father Geraint is a black villain6, and the rest of them are not much better. I wonder if he knows?”
A note of tenderness sounded in the turmoil7 of her brooding. She smiled and caressed8 the grass, stroking it with her open hand.
“Perhaps it would hurt him if he knew. And he was as frightened of me as though I had walked naked into the cell! Oh, my heart!”
Martin Valliant had been praying, little guessing that the days would come when he would trust to his own heart, and not be forever falling on his knees and asking strength from God. He had thrown Kate’s unbaked loaves into the fire, and made a meal from the
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