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Noble Vance, the Forest Warden1, came riding into Paradise on his black horse, with two archers2 in russet and green following at his heels. He crossed the Rondel at the mill, and his scarlet3 coat went burning through the orchards4 and over the fields. Such common folk as saw him louted very low to the man, for, though he rode over Church lands, he was a fellow to be feared, being merciless and very cunning. Poachers and laborers5 whom he caught chasing the deer had but one thing to hope for from Noble Vance. He loved tying a man to a tree and thrashing him with his own whip, and the fellows he caught red-handed would rather have it so than be sent to Roger Bland6 of Troy Castle.
About a furlong from the priory gate the Forest Warden overtook Dom Geraint.
“The best of a May morning to you, man of God.”
They were gossips, these two, men of animal energy who understood each other, and looked at life with the same shrewd cynicism. Their eyes met whimsically. Neither had any solid respect for the dignity of the other. Their appetites and prejudices were alike; they met on common ground and made life a gloating, full-blooded jest.
“You ride early, Master Warden.”
“All for the joy of being shrived by you, Dom Geraint.”
“Tut-tut—I am busy to-day. It would be a long affair.”
“Not so long, either; for you have only to name me any sin, good sir, and I will say that I have committed it.”
“What a mass of guilt8 is here—riding in scarlet!”
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