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And when the heron was taken the dark thoughts were gone, and we rode back to Penhurst gaily, speaking no word of war or coming trouble, but of flight of hawk and wile of quarry, and the like pleasant things.
Maybe I was blind not to see this, but I liked him well enough, save for what I thought was his sullen temper, and I would try to joke him into better humour at times in all good fellowship. But I think that the trouble began before I came back, with talk of the time when I had been at Penhurst before.
"They have not been so bold since then; and the small fights I have had with them have not been so fierce that I must fetch you from Bosham to my help." "Evil times make them bold," said the earl. "How many are there in this band?" "Enough to sack the Penhurst miners' village," the thane said.
You are right." Thus we parted, and I watched his sails fade and sink into the rim of the southern sea, and then rode back to Relf feeling as if the time to come had little brightness for me. I went slowly, and by the longer way, for I had much to think of, and I cared not just yet for the light talk of the happy people in the Penhurst hall.
As a matter of fact, he had been the champion oarsman of Penhurst Academy, but this they did not know. During his vacations at home he had done very little rowing, his time being taken up in other ways. "I wonder whether Andy Grant can row?" said John Larkin. Conrad laughed. "He can hoe corn and potatoes better than he can row, I fancy," he said. "He's a first-rate fellow," said Larkin, warmly.
They are mostly strangers to the land, and they bide where there is ale and plunder, in the old Penhurst village at the valley's head." "Then," said Olaf, "let us march at once and save the thane's hall." "That is well said," answered the earl, rubbing his hands with glee. "We will make a full end; there will be no more trouble for many a year to come."
A common forest deer thief could tie him up." "I should have thanked one for slaying me at times," said Relf grimly. "I prefer solid ground to shifty deck planks." So whether it was love of home or loathing of sea that took him back to Penhurst, Relf and I left Godwine on the next morning; and at the nunnery door waited Uldra, looking bright and cheerful and greeting us gladly as we came.
Now one day the thane and I rode together with hawk and hound eastward from Penhurst along the spur of a hill that runs thence for many a long mile, falling southward on one side towards the sea and lower hills between, and northward looking inland over forest-covered hill and valley.
"Once I thought there was and not so long ago either," I said honestly, "but I remembered in time. Now I will say truly that there is not." I had no longing for Penhurst now. Then there came across me a strange feeling that one might hardly call jealousy though it was near it and I said: "Has she seen any other who would make her wish to forget?"
Crabb was anxious to have him go to Dartmouth, his own alma mater, being convinced that he would do him credit and make a brilliant record for scholarship. Indeed, it was settled that he would go, his parents being ready to be guided by the doctor's advice. From Penhurst to Arden, where Andy's parents lived, was fifty miles. Starting at three o'clock, the train reached Arden station at five.
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