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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: friendship of Bertrade de Montfort is not lightly given
nor lightly taken away," she hesitated, "nor is her love."
"What do you mean?" he whispered. For in her eyes
was that wondrous light he had seen there on that
other day in the far castle of Leicester.
"I mean," she answered, "that, Roger de Conde or
Norman of Torn, gentleman or highwayman, it be all
the same to Bertrade de Montfort--it be thee I love;
thee!"
Had she reviled him, spat upon him, he would not
have been surprised, for he had expected the worst;
The Outlaw of Torn |
