Excerpt from The Cloister and the Hearth, Vol. 2 of 4: A Tale of the Middle Ages
Things good and evil balance themselves in a remarkable manner; and almost universally. The steel bow attached to the arbalister"s back, and carried above his head, had sunk him. that very steel bow, owing to that very position, could not escape Gerard"s hands, one of which grasped it, and the other went between the bow and the cord, which was as good. The next moment, Denys by means of his crossbow, was hoisted with so eager a jerk that half his body bobbed up out of water.
"Now, grip me not! grip me not!" cried Gerard, in mortal terror of that fatal mistake.
"Pas si bete," gurgled Denys.
Seeing the sort of stuff he had to deal with, Gerard was hopeful and calm directly.
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