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But one day the earl called him aside, and with a tenderness one could not have expected from that great statesman and mighty warrior, broke the sad tidings to the poor boy of the death of his ill-fated mother. It had arrived from Michelham; an outlaw had brought the news to the priory, with the request that the monks would send the tidings on to young Martin, wherever he might be.

How many familiar objects we see around Michelham Priory, Battle Abbey, Wilmington Priory, Pevensey Castle, Lewes Castle all in view. There, too, opposite us, is the highest of the eastern downs, Firle Beacon. It is smoking like a volcano with the embers of the bale fire, which men lit last night, to warn the natives that the king was coming. There is yet another volcano farther on.

Here was a subject she had not snubbed him over! "And you will let me teach you again when we go down to Wrayth, won't you?" But before she could answer they had arrived at the house in Queen Street. Michelham, with a subdued beam on his old face, stood inside the door with his footmen, and Tristram said gayly, "Michelham, this is to be her new ladyship; Countess Shulski" and he turned to Zara.

"Thou didst say thou wert of Sussex?" "So I am, but I was adopted into the earl's household three years agone." "Then he is Northern," said a listener. "No, he came from Sussex." "Say where? no tricks upon gentlemen." "Michelham Priory." "Michelham Priory. Ah! an acolyte! Tapers, incense, and albs." "Acolyte be hanged. He does not fight like one at all events." "Come up into my den.

In the summer time, especially if the weather were warm and genial, the greenwood was not a bad place for an invalid, and Martin was as well attended as if he had been in the infirmary at Michelham, and with far more loving care. But under such care he rapidly gathered strength, and as he did so used it all in his master's service.

I know your ladyship's own footman, James, should go with your ladyship, but if it is something serious, as an old servant, and, if I may say so, a humble and devoted friend of his lordship's, I would beg to accompany your ladyship instead." "Yes, yes, Michelham," said Zara, and hurried from the room. She sent a telegram when at last she reached the station to the St. James's Street rooms.

The burghers of Hailsham declared for the earl, as did most burghers throughout the land; and Lewes, Pevensey, and Walderne threatened to unite, harry their lands, and burn their town. The monks of Battle preached for the king, as did those of Wilmington and Michelham.

I must follow him it is a matter of life and death that I see him before he starts for Paris. Order my motor for the 2:30 train it is quicker than to go by car all the way." "Yes, my lady," Michelham said. "Everything will be ready. His lordship has gone to his rooms, 460 St. James's Street. May I accompany your ladyship? His lordship would not like your ladyship to travel alone."

A short distance inland from Pevensey is the great Sussex cattle-market at Hailsham, where the old Michelham Priory is used as a farm-house and its crypt as a dairy. Not far away is Hurstmonceux Castle, a relic of the times of Henry VI., and built entirely of brick, being probably the largest English structure of that material constructed since the Roman epoch.

"Only from Pevensey; we sought Michelham, but in the storm we must have wandered miles from it." "Many miles," said a low, sweet voice. The knight then noticed the woman for the first time he might have said lady who sat on the right of this grim king. Her features and bearing were so superior to her surroundings that he started, as men do when they spy a rich flower in a garden of herbs.