The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters

Author:Ellis Peters [Peters, Ellis]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: mystery
ISBN: 9780446400510
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-06-01T20:23:48+00:00

“And St. Giles is on our way?” It was a chapel of the abbey, away at the eastern end of the Foregate.

“It is. We’ll go south to Sutton, and then bear west and into the forest. You’ll have three miles or more to walk back by the shorter way. Without horses we may save a mile or so.”

“I think my legs will hold me up for that distance,” said Beringar demurely. “After Compline, then, at St. Giles.” And without any further word or question he left Cadfael’s side, lengthening his easy stride to gain ground; for Aline Siward was just emerging from the doorway of her house and turning towards the abbey gateway on her way to church. Before she had gone many yards Beringar was at her elbow; she raised her head and smiled confidingly into his face. A creature quite without guile, but by no means without proper pride or shrewd sense, and she opened like a flower at sight of this young man devious as a serpent, whatever else of good or ill might be said of him. That, thought Cadfael, watching them walk before him in animated conversation, ought to signify something in his favour? Or was it only proof of her childlike trustfulness? Blameless young women have before now been taken in by black-hearted villains, even murderers; and black-hearted villains and murderers have been deeply devoted to blameless young women, contradicting their own nature in this one perverse tenderness.

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