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"This is the pest of my life," answered the earl angrily, "for no sooner are our men gone harvesting than these forest knaves begin to give trouble. "When were you last burnt out, Relf of Penhurst?" and he laughed in an angry way that had no mirth in it. "Four years agone after our trouble with Brihtric," answered the thane.
Day was a scrubby little fellow, and Relf had warts all over his hands.... But she wasn't choosing Socknersh for his looks; she was choosing him because he would work for her the best, not being set up with "notions."
Godwine was only too right, but I could not say so. Now, however, I may say that the memory of Emma the queen's ways is to me as a nightmare. "I would that I could meet with this Egil," Godwine said as I gave him sword Foe's Bane to handle; and then he forgot all else in the beauty of the weapon. "What have you done with the brave maiden?" Relf asked me now. "She is in the nunnery here," I said.
"If there were no Ethelred " said the earl, and stopped. He said no more then until we were nearly within hearing of Relf. Then he turned and faced me, taking my hand and staying me. "I would that Olaf and you were my friends," he said, "for you both speak out for those whom you love or serve.
And so we came to Penhurst in its valley among the trees, and the ride was over. Now there is no need to say what welcome was at that house, whether for its lord, or for the warrior who had been nursed back to life there, or for the new-come homeless maiden. Relf was not wrong when he told her that she should be as a daughter in the house.
Everyone ull think as I'm bust, through having lost my case, and I'll go right away Chichester, I'd thought of going to, where Martha Relf is and when the baby comes, no one till be a bit the wiser." "Of course they will. They'll know all about it everything gets known here, and you've never in your life been able to keep a secret.
"He has indeed been a good friend to me." "Not I," said Relf; "you fought for me. It was my wife and Sexberga, my daughter, who tended you." Now at that name, which she already knew, the maiden looked quickly away from me, and a little flush began to creep up into her face, with pleasure as it would seem. "I have heard of your daughter Sexberga already," she said to Relf with a little smile.
"I shall wait till Bertric comes back, and so maybe shall have news of your queen to tell you. He should not be long. Relf goes back for the early hay time, he says, but I believe that he is tired of the sea." "I am no sailor, lord," the thane said. "As any of my crew will tell you," Godwine said merrily. "Never, Redwald, was any man so undone as Relf when there is a little sea on.
She could go to Chichester, where Martha Relf, the girl who had been with her when she first took over Ansdore and had behaved so wickedly with the looker at Honeychild, now kept furnished rooms as a respectable widow.
So this seemed to me to be quite enough to explain Uldra's first refusal, and though I believe that Relf had been on the point of telling me more, he forbore, and let this suffice. Relf knew where to look for a beast, and we soon had a good bay pony, that was quiet enough and strong, sent to Godwine's stables. And then Relf told the earl what he had done.
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