The Winter Mantle
“Crowland Abbey's chapel was awash with liquid autumn light, burnishing the fair-brown hair upon Simon's bent head to polished gold and gilding the embroidered purple pall that lay over Waltheof's resting place.
Outside the abbey gates a crowd of pilgrims waited to file past the tomb, but on the point of setting out on his journey to Jerusalem Simon was granted a moment alone with his father - by - marriage.
'I ask you to watch over Matilda and our children while I am gone,' Simon murmured, his ...hands clasped and his gaze fixed upon the pall with its surroundings of pilgrim offerings, both the grand and the tawdry. His jaw tightened as he spoke of his wife. Matters had been strained between them for several months, each of them avoiding confrontation. He had spent much of his time away from Northampton, raising funds for the journey, discussing the venture with others who were committed and dealing with outstanding business. Matilda had taken to her garden with a vengeance until she was as brown as a peasant woman and her hands were rough and work-worn.MoreLess
Outside the abbey gates a crowd of pilgrims waited to file past the tomb, but on the point of setting out on his journey to Jerusalem Simon was granted a moment alone with his father - by - marriage.
'I ask you to watch over Matilda and our children while I am gone,' Simon murmured, his ...hands clasped and his gaze fixed upon the pall with its surroundings of pilgrim offerings, both the grand and the tawdry. His jaw tightened as he spoke of his wife. Matters had been strained between them for several months, each of them avoiding confrontation. He had spent much of his time away from Northampton, raising funds for the journey, discussing the venture with others who were committed and dealing with outstanding business. Matilda had taken to her garden with a vengeance until she was as brown as a peasant woman and her hands were rough and work-worn.MoreLess
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