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"By my halidame, I have two fair daughters at home who will lack husbands, I trow, for they can only spin and be chaste, two maidenly gifts out of bloom with the White Rose." In the mean while, unwitting, or contemptuous, of the attention they excited, Warwick and Clarence continued yet more earnestly to confer.
"Now, by my halidame, I honour and love thee, Edward," cried the Duke, with a heartiness more frank than was usual to him: "and were I thy subject, woe to man or woman that wagged tongue to wound thee by a breath. But who and what is this same Hilda? one of thy kith and kin? surely not less than kingly blood runs so bold?"
If what thou despisest in me be my want of bookcraft, and such like, by my halidame I will turn scholar for thy sake; and "
By our halidame, Lord Scales, thou must look well to thy lance and thy steed's girths, for never, I trow, hast thou met a champion of goodlier strength and knightlier mettle." "My lord king," answered the count, "I fear me, indeed, that a knight like the Sieur Anthony, who fights under the eyes of such a king, will prove invincible.
"Enough, by my halidame!" said Edward, laughing bitterly; "he shall see what a king dares, when a subject threatens. Admit the worshipful the deputies from our city of London, lord chamberlain, it is thine office, they await in the anteroom."
The cardinal believing that the lady had obtained her receipt from the bank of deposit, left the tassels of his girdle in the king's hand, making a start as if he had forgotten to say his prayers, and made his way towards the door. "What is the matter with you, Monsieur le Cardinal?" said the king. "By my halidame, what is the matter with me?
If what thou despisest in me be my want of bookcraft, and such like, by my halidame I will turn scholar for thy sake; and "
"Then by my halidame," quoth the irate knight, "as I'm a justice o' the peace, he shall be faced with the offence. When was it perpetrated?" "At the hawking party." "What, here at Haddon?" "You don't mean the pedlar, surely?" inquired Lady Vernon. "Aye, but I do; he was murdered in the wood." "Tut," angrily exclaimed Sir George, "'tis all a tale, and I for one don't believe a word of it.
Before they could reach the gate, the horseman had been admitted; and as Sir George and his friends stepped into the yard they recognised not the features of Sir Edward Stanley, as Margaret's lover secretly thought, but the well-known form of Manners. "How! by my halidame, what meaneth this?" exclaimed the baron, delighted beyond measure to see the esquire again.
The boy took the first slip obediently and read aloud "Madam, a horseman comes riding across the hill. The sun flashes full on his arms. By my halidame 'tis the Knight Hospitaller!" "That seems pretty fair rot," criticised Tilda. "Let's 'ave the other." " Madam, he has reined up his steed. He stands without." Here Arthur Miles paused and drew breath. "Without what?" "It doesn't say.
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