Also they knew me, for my ears being very
sharp, I heard Sir Robert say in his big voice:
"Here comes that young fisherman again. Pass him in silence, Daughter";
heard, too, Lord Deleroy drawl it, "It seems that he has been gathering
gear from the slain, and like a good chapman bears it away for secret
sale."
Only the lady Blanche answered neither the one nor the other, but rode
forward with her eyes fixed before her, pretending to talk to the hawk
upon her wrist, and now that she was rested and at ease, looking even
more beautiful than she had done on the day of the burning.
So we met and passed, I glancing at them idly and guiding my horses to
the side of the road. When there were perhaps ten yards between us I
heard Lady Blanche cry:
"Oh, my hawk!" I looked round to see that the falcon on her wrist had in
some way loosed itself, or been loosed, and being hooded, had fallen to
the ground where one of the dogs was trying to catch and kill it. Now
there was great confusion, the eyes of all being fixed upon the hawk and
the dog, in the midst of which the lady Blanche very quietly turned her
head, and lifting her hand as though to see how the hawk had fallen from
it, with a swift movement laid her fingers against her lips and threw a
kiss to me.
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