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One man made some attempt at growling at a mere lad being consulted, while the stout warriors were kept in ignorance; but the spirit of discipline and confidence had returned with Sigbert, and no one heeded the murmur. Meantime, Sigbert followed the young Lord Walter up the rough winding stairs to the chamber where Mabel lay on her cushions. "What! what!" demanded the boy, pausing to enter.
"Bad enough, bad enough!" broke in Sigbert; "but there's no need to make it worse. Better to waste with hunger and thirst than be a nidering fellow rising against your lord in his distress." "We would never have done it if he would have kept a civil tongue." "Civility's hard to a tongue dried up," returned Sigbert.
In the last dungeon a black opening lay before them, just seen by the light of the lamp Sigbert carried, but so low that there was no entrance save on hands and knees. "That den!" exclaimed Walter. "'Tis a rat-hole. Never can we go that way." "I have tried it, sir," quoth Sigbert. "Where I can go, you can go. Your sister quails not."
The only regret is that I have been forced to leave the castle to the enemy! the castle we were bound to defend." "Nay, sir, if it be your will," said Sigbert, "the tables might yet be turned on the Saracen."
CLASS VI. In our sixth class, the first record we have is from the Commentaries of Sigbert, which contains a description of a monstrosity born in the reign of the Emperor Theodosius, who had two heads, two chests with four arms attached, but a single lower extremity. The emotions, affections, and appetites were different.
One of the two in the rear was dropped and extinguished in the dismal passage, a loss proclaimed by a suppressed groan passing along the line, and a louder exclamation from Walter, causing Sigbert to utter a sharp 'Hush! enforced by a thud and tramp above, as if the rock were coming down on them, but which probably was the trampling of horses in the camp above.
Beda lib. 5. cap. 20. After him one Selred the sonne of Sigbert the good, ruled the Eastsaxons the tearme of 38 yéeres. After whose decease one Beorne was made king of Eastangles, and reigned about 26 yéeres. Wil. Malm. Hunt.
Yes, dear lady, that is enough for old Sigbert." And Mabel had to acquiesce and believe that her old friend found peace and gladness beneath the eight-pointed Cross, when she and her brother sailed for England, where she would behold the green fields and purple heather of which he had told her amid the rocks of Palestine.
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