A Maid of Brittany: A Romance

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A MAID OF BRITTANY
A Romance
MAY WYNNE
AUTHOR OF HENRY OF NAVARRE, WHEN TERROR RULED, ETC.
POPULAR EDITION with FRONTISPIECE BY H. M. BROCK
LONDON GREENING & CO., LTD. 1909
( All rights reserved )
Dedicated TO MY MOTHER
MAID OF BRITTANY
CHAPTER I
A spy—a French spy! tiens, monsieur! but it is assured. The speaker, a man of about thirty years of age, dressed in hunting costume, was standing by his horse's side, looking down, with flushed face and knitted brows, upon a figure which lay stretched on the ground before him, the figure of a man also young, but even in unconsciousness of far more prepossessing appearance than he who stood frowning over him. Gathered at a short distance and watching the scene with keen interest stood a hawking party, fresh from their chase, and consisting of a broad-shouldered, handsome old man of some seventy summers, a young girl, whose beautiful face wore a compassionate look as she bent forward on her palfrey to catch a glimpse at the unconscious stranger, and several attendants bearing trophies of the chase, and carrying hooded falcons on their wrists.