And he made his daughter sit at his side.
Anne-Mie came likewise to sit at table, beside the lady Gonde, who said: “Young company warms old folk.”
And there were served to them that evening fine white bread, beef salted and smoked in the chimney among the sweet smoke of fir-cones, Ghent sausage, which was invented, they say, by Boudwin the Glutton, bastard of Flanders, and old clauwaert.
Supper finished, and a prayer spoken, Magtelt and Anne-Mie went off to bed, in the same room, for Magtelt loved Anne-Mie like a sister and would have her by her side at all times.
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Magtelt, with laughter, singing, and frolic, soon fell asleep.
But Anne-Mie, being somewhat cold, could not close her eyes.
And the Miserable came and stationed himself on the border of his land. Thence his voice rang out clear, soft, and melodious.
And Anne-Mie heard it, and, forgetting that she was but lightly clad, rose up and went out of the castle by the postern.