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"Are you so sure?" Geoffrey asked. Then he shrugged. "If you are right, it was the wrong marriage to consider anyway. A man needs to know what he is getting when he takes one of the women of Roselynde to his bosom."
"Did you?" Simon asked interestedly.
Geoffrey eyed his brother-by-marriage for a moment and then said softly, "Yes." His lips twitched. I came to Roselynde when your father married your mother. Joanna was then nine years old. She was beautiful even then, and very sweet and properuntil I crossed her will and she hit me on the head with Beorn's quarterstaff. Yes, I knew."
"But I do not think Walter" Simon began, and then stopped. He did not find Rhiannon's aggressive ways distasteful. He found them exciting. Perhaps Walter would, tooafter he recovered from how Sybelle expressed her disapproval of his management of his menif he ever recovered. Simon sighed. "Where is he now?"
"In the same area, perhaps farther west, nearer Devizes. I think there is more to it than just raiding to make the king's adherents dissatisfied. I fear the end purpose has something to do with de Burgh. If you see or hear from Walter, Simon, bid him have no part in attempting to free de Burgh. Devizes is too strong, and any attempt will only increase the severity of the old man's imprisonment."
"I will," Simon said, but his voice was doubtful, and there was a question in his eyes.
"Do not be a fool." Geoffrey sighed. "I cannot write to him. If I know such a thing, I should warn the king of itand that is the last thing I wish to do because it would bring about all the bad effects of such an attempt without achieving anything at all."
"But I do not believe I will go back to England when this siege is over, and I do not have a messenger I can trust to go anywhere but Roselynde, so" Simon's

 
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