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-- when he was occupied with her and when not . Mostly he sang all the morning from the moment the sun struck his window . Thus she judged him a light sleeper . From noon to four there was no sound ; surely then he slept . He sang fitfully in the evening , not so saliently ; more at night , if there was a moon ; and generally he closed his eyes with a stave of _ Li dous consire _ , that song which he had made of and for her . When she had been sitting there for upwards of a month , and still no sign from the bearer of the letter , she saw Gilles de Gurdun come halting up the poplar avenue and pry about the walls , much as she herself had done . She knew him at once for all his tatters , this square-faced , low-browed Norman .