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Updated: May 11, 2025
I had suffered sore anguish of heart and humiliation of spirit, over the news of his marriage with his cousin Alfrida, ere I resolved to renounce the world and enter the cloister." "But Hugh did not wed his cousin, nor any other woman," said the Bishop.
Her words which gave a hearty welcome to the French and German-speaking guests and to our Swedish sisters in their several languages; the beautiful cantata written by Sigrid Leijonhufvud, the music composed by Alfrida Andree specially for this occasion, and last but not least the presence of the woman all of us had long known and loved before we saw her, Selma Lagerlöf, made us feel at home in Sweden at once.
He came in haste to see the Lady Alfrida, from whom, during all the years, he had extorted endless hush-money. "I and my men awaited him. "He had fattened on his hush-money! He was no longer lean and out at elbow. "He screeched at sight of me, thinking me risen from the dead. "He screeched still louder when he saw the noose, flung over a strong bough. "We left him hanging, when we rode away.
At each mention of the Ladies Eleanor and Alfrida, she shook her fist, and made signs with her old fingers, as of throttling, in the air.
"Hugh, it seems hard that I should clip your splendid wings; but oh, Hugh! Think you the heart of a nun can ever become again as the heart of other women?" "Heaven forbid!" said the Knight, fervently, thinking of Eleanor and Alfrida.
That Judas kind will do the darkest deeds for greed of gain. The first of the tribe himself shewed the way by which it was most fitting to speed them from a world into which it had been good for them never to have been born. "From Alfrida I learned that, as Eleanor had foreseen, thy grief at my perfidy drove thee to the Cloister. Also that thy Convent was near Worcester.
And when the clerkly messenger, arriving to speak with the Lady Alfrida who, Saint Luke be praised, was by that time dying found the Knight awaiting him with a noose flung over a strong bough, old Antony had laid down the chopper that she might the better hug herself with silent glee; and when the Knight rode away and left him hanging, she had whispered "Pieman!
But he, hard to content, ever headstrong and eager, already having taken the cross, and being now called at once to join the King in Palestine, begged for immediate marriage that he might take her with him to the Court of the new Queen, to which his cousin Alfrida had already been summoned; or, if he must leave her behind, at least leave her, not affianced maid, but wedded wife.
To thy beautiful castle and lands, so near mine own, Eleanor's son had succeeded, and ruled there in thy stead. He being at Court just then, I saw him not, nor could I hear direct news of thee, though rumour said a convent. "Then I remembered my cousin, Alfrida, lying sick at her manor in Chester.
There was about her, as she spoke, a wistful humbleness; and a patient sadness, infinitely touching. "Sir Hugh," she said, "my dear Knight, whom I ever found brave and tender, and whom I now know to have been always loyal and true there is no need that I should add a word to your recital. The facts you wrung from Alfrida God grant forgiveness to that tormented heart are all true.
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