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They asked her whether she would swear to this; and, without a
the Scriptures that there had been no marriage.
Fulbert was enraged by this. He ill-treated Heloise, and,
again left her uncle's house.html">house and betook herself to a convent just
disguise. There Abelard continued from time to time to meet her.
When Fulbert heard of this he put his own interpretation on it. He
and that possibly he might even marry some other woman. In any
take a fearful and unnatural vengeance which would at once prevent
it would debar him from ecclesiastical preferment.
To carry out his plot Fulbert first bribed a man who was the body-
Then he hired the services of four ruffians. After Abelard had
door. The hirelings of Fulbert entered and fell upon the sleeping
inflicted on him the most shameful mutilation that is possible.
lost in darkness, leaving behind their victim bound to his couch,
the lawless and barbarous era in which it happened. Early the next
a bee-hive. Citizens and students and ecclesiastics poured into
clamoring toward his house. Women wept as if each one had lost her
spirit of his time to seek vengeance. He, in his turn, employed
him. The treacherous valet and one of Fulbert's hirelings were run
their eyes were blinded. A third was lodged in prison. Fulbert
had power to punish an ecclesiastic, and all his goods were
than his own, while her love and her devotion were absolutely
meanness--far beyond any that he had before exhibited. Heloise
in her fidelity. He was unwilling that she should live in. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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