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Next to King Richard sat John Balliol, and next to Prince Edward, Robert Bruce, father of the future king of Scotland, and a great favourite both with prince and king. Drogo did not sit down at his own board. He preferred, he said, to play the page for the last time, and to wait upon his king, which was honour enough for a young knight.
Drogo paces the battlements of the watchtower with excited steps the royal banner will soon be seen surmount ing that ridge above the castle. Yes, there is a messenger spurring downwards as fast as the sandy road will permit him; see, he is galloping as for dear life look at the cloud of dust which he raises.
The twelve counts were sometimes joined in the league of injustice: in their domestic quarrels they disputed the spoils of the people: the virtues of William were buried in his grave; and Drogo, his brother and successor, was better qualified to lead the valor, than to restrain the violence, of his peers.
As for poor Drogo, he must be content with the patrimony of Sir Nicholas the manor of Harengod. So Sir Nicholas first sought an interview with his brother-in-law, Roger, at the priory.
"Sir Drogo has taken it with him." "We will have it open. "Friar Martin, art thou within?" "Safe and uninjured. Is it thou, Kynewulf? Then I charge thee that thou do no hurt to any here. They have not injured me." "Not injured thee, to place thee here! Well, we will soon have thee out. We have promised Grimbeard to bring thee to him, or forfeit our lives. He is dying." "Dying! And I not there!
Then again, he had been sweetly lectured upon his temper by Father Edmund, and had promised to control it. Still, was he to be switched by Drogo? He knew he never could bear it, and didn't quite feel that he ought to do so. "Hubert," he said at last, "I don't think I can stay here." "Why, it is a very pleasant place. I love it more every day, and they are not such bad fellows."
For one whose lessons in chivalry were so abruptly broken off, thou hast learnt thy language well. But just now it would be more to the point if thou wilt tell me what it will cost me to get out of thy den." Drogo winced at the allusion to his expulsion from Kenilworth, and charged fifty marks the more. "We fix thy ransom at a hundred marks ." "Why, it is a king's ransom!"
This man had seen the whole affair, had seen Drogo pick up Hubert's arrow after the latter was gone, and stand as if musing over it, when a deer came that way, and Drogo let fly the shaft at once.
Hence they found the poor mayor of Hamelsham safe and sound, only a little less afraid of the "merrie men" than of Drogo; for often had they rifled the castle and robbed the hen roosts of his town. But all their efforts failed to open Martin's door, and they were at their wits' end what to do.
Now let there be peace, and let men turn their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks, and hasten the glorious day when the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of God and His Christ." "We will. God bless Sir Hubert of Walderne." "God bless brother Martin." Drogo was forgotten, as though he had never lived, forgiven and forgotten.
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