In the fourteenth century, the abbey-raised youth Alleyne Edricson joins Sir Nigel Loring and a band of English archers, marching through France and Spain amid the campaigns of the Hundred Years' War.
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Garin de Montglane: “…black even lines drew his hand down to them, as the loadstone draws the needle, until, almost before he knew it, he was standing with the romance of Garin de Montglane before his eyes, so absorbed in its contents as to be completely oblivious both of where he was and why he had come there.”
Doon de Mayence: “I tell you, my fair lord," she was saying, "that it is no fit training for a demoiselle: hawks and hounds, rotes and citoles singing a French rondel, or reading the Gestes de Doon de Mayence, as I found her yesternight, pretending sleep, the artful, with the corner of the scroll thrusting forth from under her pillow.”
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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “comfortably couched up in his room, he munched Nabiscos and finished “The White Company””