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The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   Two Cousins, One Feud and a Fatal Duel

   The book opens in the East, in a vast city half buried in snow, where the dead burn in the temple squares. A burly man in a red cloak walks to the river and boards a ship with crimson sails. He is Murgh, and he promises the city that he will come again.

   On the same day, in February 1346, Eve Clavering, tall, dark and always dressed in red, calls her cousin Hugh de Cressi to the frozen Blythburgh marshes to say farewell. His gaunt archer Grey Dick keeps watch among the willows. The Claverings hold the land and the de Cressis hold the gold, and their feud is three generations old.

   Eve's father has promised her to a rich French lord, Sir Edmund Acour. She will not go. She and Hugh swear their love and plan to flee to Sir Andrew Arnold, an old priest at Dunwich. Then Dick's peewit call warns them that armed men are riding down on them.

   Her brother John sets the reeds on fire and strikes Hugh in the face by the river. In the duel that follows, Hugh spares John once, and when John will not yield, he kills him. Hugh and Eve swim the icy Blythe while Dick holds the bank. One fair fight has turned an old quarrel into a blood feud.

2. 2

   A Priest Tells of the House of Murgh

   In the Templar house at Dunwich, Sir Andrew Arnold gives the three fugitives dry clothes and a roaring fire.

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3. 3

   A Penance, a Pardon and an Archery Match

   Before Hugh rides, Andrew hears both lovers in the church and gives them a penance, since John's blood lies between them.

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4. 4

   A Snare Is Set and a Prison Closes

   While Hugh is away, Sir John Clavering storms to the Templar house to drag Eve home.

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5. 5

   At Crecy the Wrong Man Wears the Swan

   After the chapel scene, Hugh survives a terrible blow to the head because Andrew has lent him a chain-mail hood.

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6. 6

   A Challenge in Venice and a Stranger from the Sea

   After Calais falls, letters come from Andrew and Eve.

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7. 7

   Earthquake, Plague and a Hunt Through Avignon

   On the morning of the duel the heat is unbearable.

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8. 8

   Love, Loyalty and the Price of Greed

   Eve is the heart of the book's idea of love.

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9. 9

   Murgh the Helper and the Meaning of Fate

   Murgh is Death, and the book gives him a double face.

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10. 10

    How the Story Is Told and What to Watch

    Haggard frames the tale with the Eastern prologue, so the reader knows from the first page that Murgh is coming.

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