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A Monk of Fife; A Romance of the Days of Jeanne D'arc
A Monk of Fife A Romance of the Days of Jeanne D'arc Author:Andrew Lang General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: English fiction France Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white ... more »OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III WHAT BEFELL OUTSIDE OF CHINON TOWN My old nurse, when I was a child, used to tell me a long story of a prince who, wandering through the world, made friends with many strange companions. One she called Lynx-eye, that could see through a mountain; one was Swift-foot, that could outrun the wind; one was Fine- ear, that could hear the grass growing; and there was Greedy-gut, that could swallow a river. All these were very serviceable to this gracious prince, of I know not what country, in his adventures; and they were often brought into my mind by the companions whom we picked up on the grass-grown roads. These wanderers were as strange as the friends of the prince, and were variously, but scarce honourably, gifted. There was the one-armed soldier, who showed his stump very piteously when it was a question of begging from a burgess, but was as well furnished with limbs as other men when no burgess was in sight. There was a wretched woman violer, with her jackanapes, and with her husband, a hang-dog ruffian, she bearing the mark of his fist on her eye, and commonly trailing far behind him with her brat on her back. There was a blind man, with his staff, who might well enough answer to Keen-eye, that is, when no strangers were in sight. There was a layman, wearing cope and stole and selling indulgences, but our captain, Brother Thomas, soon banished him fromour compan...« less