The Border Lord And the Lady
“Mab taught her lady the use of herbs, like lavender for sleep, and comfrey for healing bruises and knitting bones back together. She showed Cicely how to mix powders and poultices, and how to make pills. Cicely learned how to examine a patient for a broken or dislocated bone. How to bind such injuries.
There was another lack in her education she now had to make up. She began to learn about how to defend the house should they be attacked. The captain of their men-at-arms was a burly, baldhea...ded Douglas man named Frang. At first he was loath to discuss defense with Cicely. She was, after all, English born.
“I am capable of keeping the house safe,” he told her.
“But what if you were away?” Cicely asked him in dulcet tones. “You could come back to find the house burned, and the rest of us dead or carried off. You must teach me what I need to know should you and the laird not be here, Frang. I know I may rely upon you at all times, but if I could not keep my own house and servants safe from attack I should be a poor border wife.”MoreLess
There was another lack in her education she now had to make up. She began to learn about how to defend the house should they be attacked. The captain of their men-at-arms was a burly, baldhea...ded Douglas man named Frang. At first he was loath to discuss defense with Cicely. She was, after all, English born.
“I am capable of keeping the house safe,” he told her.
“But what if you were away?” Cicely asked him in dulcet tones. “You could come back to find the house burned, and the rest of us dead or carried off. You must teach me what I need to know should you and the laird not be here, Frang. I know I may rely upon you at all times, but if I could not keep my own house and servants safe from attack I should be a poor border wife.”MoreLess
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