"The good Odo is dead," said the knight."An arrow in the left eye has bereft our Duke of a noble ally and increased the blessedness of the City of Paradise.You are masterless now.Will you ride with me on my service, you Jehan the Hunter? It would appear that we are alike in our ways of thinking.They call me the Dove from the shield I bear, and a dove I seek to be in the winning of England.The hawk's task is over when the battle is won, and he who has but the sword for weapon is no hawk, but carrion-crow.
We have to set our Duke on the throne, but that is but the first step.
There are more battles before us, and when they are ended begins the slow task of the conquest of English hearts.How say you, Jehan? Will you ride north with me on this errand, and out of the lands which are granted me to govern have a corner on which to practise your creed?"So it befell that Jehan the Hunter, sometimes called Jehan the Outborn, joined the company of Ivo of Dives, and followed him when Duke William swept northward laughing his gross jolly laughter and swearing terribly by the splendour of God.
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