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The place is known as the rattlesnakes' den to this day, though there are none there now, I believe." "My little cousin is well, I hope," said Mr. Rossitur. "She? yes, bless her! she is always well. Where is she? Fairy, where are you? Cynthy, just call Elfleda here." "She's just in the thick of the muffins, Mr. Ringgan." "Let the muffins burn! Call her."
She was going, and had near reached the door, when he said, "Elfleda!" She hastened back to the bedside. "Kiss me." He let her do so twice, without moving, and then holding her to his breast he pressed one long earnest passionate kiss upon her lips, and released her, Fleda told Cynthy that her grandfather wished her to come to him, and then mounted the stairs to her little bedroom.
Elfleda became a nun, and Ethelhilda also liued in perpetuall virginitie, but yet in a laie habit. Wil. And Ethilda by helpe of hir brother Adelstan was bestowed vpon Hugh sonne to Robert earle of Paris, for hir singular beautie most highlie estéemed: sith nature in hir had shewed as it were hir whole cunning, in perfecting hir with all gifts and properties of a comelie personage.
Rossitur laughing said "Let's have it;" and even her husband commanded Hugh to go and fetch it; so poor Fleda, though not a little unwilling, was obliged to let the list be forthcoming. Hugh brought it, in a neat little book covered with pink blotting paper. "Now for it," said the doctor; "let us see what this English amounts to. Can you stand fire, Elfleda?" 'Jan. 1.
"Elfleda," said aunt Miriam gravely, and tenderly, "do you know what was your mother's prayer for you?" "Yes," she whispered. "What was it?" "That I might be kept " "Unspotted from the world!" repeated aunt Miriam, in a tone of tender and deep feeling. "My sweet blossom! how wilt thou keep so? Will you remember always your mother's prayer?" "I will try." "How will you try, Fleda?"
The common tale of his plucking the diuell by the nose with a paire of pinsors, for tempting him with women, while he was making a chalice: the great loue that the ladie Elfleda néere kinswoman to king Adelstane bare him to hir dieng day, with a great manie of other such like matters, I leaue as friuolous, and wholie impertinent to our purpose: onelie this I read, that through declaring of his dreames and visions, he obteined in the time of king Edgar, first the bishoprike of Worcester, after of London, & last of all the archbishoprike of Canturburie.
"I troubled you to stop, sir, that I might ask you how much longer you expect to stop at Montepoole." Not more than two or three days, he said. "I understood," said aunt Miriam after a minute's pause, "that Mrs. Carleton was so kind as to say she would take care of Elfleda to France and put her in the hands of her aunt." "She would have great pleasure in doing it," said Mr. Carleton.
"I troubled you to stop, Sir, that I might ask you how much longer you expect to stop at Montepoole." Not more than two or three days, he said. "I understood," said aunt Miriam, after a minute's pause, "that Mrs. Carleton was so kind as to say she would take care of Elfleda to France, and put her in the hands of her aunt." "She would have great pleasure in doing it," said Mr. Carleton.
Rossitur the doctor pushed round his chair to take a look at the children. "So that's Amy's child," said he. "Come here, Amy." "That is not my name," said the little girl coming forward. "Isn't it? It ought to be. What is then?" "Elfleda." "Elfleda! Where in the name of all that is auricular did you get such an outlandish name?"
This Elfleda was wife to the said duke Edred or Etheldred, as before you haue heard: of whose woorthie acts more shall be said heereafter.
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