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But proud as was Aldyth, all pride seemed humbled into woman's sweeter emotions at the sight of the Earl, and she was at first unable to command words to answer his greeting. Gradually, however, she warmed into cordial confidence.
I will ask the King's leave to go to my East Anglians, and hold there a folkmuth, administer justice, redress grievances, and make thegn and ceorl content with Harold, their Earl. But vain is peace in the realm, if there is strife in the house. And Aldyth, the daughter of Algar, cannot be house-wife to me."
Then haughtily waving his hand to the bode, in sign of dismissal, he strode to and fro the room in gloomy perturbation. Judith, like her sister Matilda, a woman fierce and vindictive, continued, by that sharp venom that lies in the tongue of the sex, to incite still more the intense resentment of her lord. Perhaps some female jealousies of Aldyth might contribute to increase her own indignation.
But there was one with whom Haco was more often than with all others one whom the presence of Harold had allured to that anxious scene of intrigue, and whose heart leapt high at the hopes whispered from the smileless lips of Haco. It was the second day after that which assured him the allegiance of the thegns, that a message was brought to Harold from the Lady Aldyth.
I cannot wed the child of thy Count: the wife of Harold sits beside him." And he pointed to the proud beauty of Aldyth, enthroned under the drapery of gold. "For the vow that I took, I deny it not.
All clustered to one spot-Leofwine and his betrothed Gurth and his bride even the selfish Aldyth, ennobled by the contagion of the sublime emotion, all clustered round Githa the mother of the three guardians of the fated land, and all knelt before her, by the side of Harold.
Aldyth, the sister of Edwin and Morcar, is Lady of England; and that union shuts thee out from Northumbria for ever." At these words, as if stricken by some deadly and inexpressible insult, the Earl recoiled, and stood a moment mute with rage and amaze. His singular beauty became distorted into the lineaments of a fiend. He stamped with his foot, as he thundered a terrible curse.
But Aldyth had not seated herself; and, side by side with her dead lord's great victor, thus she spoke: "Woe worth the day and the hour when Aldyth left the hall of her fathers and the land of her birth! Her robe of a queen has been rent and torn over an aching heart, and the air she has breathed has reeked as with blood.
"But the even-mete will summon thee soon," said she. Harold, who had already descended from his chair of state, and was bending over a casket of papers on the table, replied: "There is food here till the morrow; wait me not." Aldyth sighed, and withdrew at the one door, while the thegns most in Harold's confidence entered at the other.
All clustered to one spot-Leofwine and his betrothed Gurth and his bride even the selfish Aldyth, ennobled by the contagion of the sublime emotion, all clustered round Githa the mother of the three guardians of the fated land, and all knelt before her, by the side of Harold.
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