Adam to follow his example.

"Thou hast been daring peril again!" said the Princess, holding her
husband's arm, and looking up into his face with lovingly reproachful
yet exulting eyes. "Yet I will not be troubled! Naught is danger to
thee! And yet alone and unarmed to encounter such a sturdy savage as
I see yonder! But there is blood on his brow! Let his hurt be
looked to ere we speak of his fate."

"He is at thy disposal, mi Dona," returned Edward: "thou art the
judge of both, and shall decide their lot when thou hast heard their
tale."

"It can scarce be a very dark one," replied Eleanor, "or thou wouldst
never have led them to such a judge!" Then turning to the prisoners,
she began to say in her foreign English, "Follow the good father,
friends--" when she broke off at fuller sight of the boy's
countenance, and exclaimed in Provencal, "I know the like of that
face and mien!"

"Truly dost thou know it," her husband replied; "but peace till thou
hast cleared thy present court, and we can be private.--Follow the
priest," he added, "and await the Princess's pleasure."

They obeyed; and the priest led them through a side-door, through
which they could still hear Eleanor's sweet Castillian voice laying
before her husband her difficulties in comprehending her various
petitioners. The priest being English, was hardly more easily
understood than his flock; and her lady spoke little but langue
d'oui, the Northern French, which was as little serviceable in