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Also she had suffered much from grievous fear and doubt, for whatever she might say to Acour, how could she be sure that his story was not true?

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Again and again they asked at the inns whether a knight who bore the name of Acour, or de Noyon, or Cattrina, was or had been a guest there, but none whom they asked seemed to know anything of such a person.

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"I'll double it," said Acour, "if you can bring it about that these insolent Englishmen die -- of the pest."

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Acour stood before Murgh like a criminal before his judge.

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The food she ate with thankfulness, but the wine she would not drink, because she knew that it was French and had heard Acour praise it.

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Yes, there by the graveside, over the body of the dead Acour, there in the red light of the morning, amidst the lonely snows, was celebrated the strangest marriage the world has ever seen.

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Acour, and least of all her father, they had led her to the altar like

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Claverings and the uncoffined corpses lying on their biers by the edge of the yawning graves; the mourners in their mail; the low voice of the celebrating priest, a Frenchman, Father Nicholas, chaplain to Acour, who hurried through the Latin service as though he wished to be done with it; the deep shadows of the groined roof whereon the rain pattered -- such were the features of this interment.

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He told how, although he had fled from England to save his life, Acour had never ceased to desire her and to plot to get her into his power, any more than he had ceased to fear Hugh's vengeance.

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Or perhaps Acour himself had found and murdered him, or hired others to do the deed.

Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890