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In the end we did a thing that may seem to some to have been rash altogether, but it was our wish to compel Alsi to fight before his force was great enough to crush us. It might be long before Ragnar could raise a host and join us, for there was always a chance that he might have trouble in getting the Norfolk thanes to come to his standard for a march on Lindsey.
Now, as the earl said this, the king's smile went from his face, and black enough he looked for a moment. The look passed quickly, and the smile came back, but it seemed hard to keep it up. "Why, that is well," he said; "so you fell in with her on the way." "I have attended her from London," answered the earl, looking steadfastly at Alsi, "and it was as well that I did so, as it happened."
But if Woden or Frey, or whoever looks after good deeds, scores the mistake to Alsi as well, it will be the first on the count of charity that " But at this Berthun rose up in stately wise. "I may not listen to this. To think that here in the guardroom I should hear such " "Sit down, comrade," said Eglaf, laughing, and pulling the steward into his seat again.
With whom does he talk?" "None come to seek him, lord, except one of the housecarls the big man to whom you spoke tonight. Seldom does he go into the town, and then only the porters seem to know him, for he was among them, as a stranger, when I met him first." "A big man will always make an acquaintance with another," Alsi said, "and the porters are the lowest in the place.
Now Goldberga knew that, and had long made up her mind that when the time came she would not shrink from the burden of the crown. It may well have been that Alsi thought that she would wish to wait for a time yet, for he did not seem altogether pleased when she answered, "If the Witan thinks right, I am ready." "But," he said, "there is one thing to come before that.
And now it was plain that with the grim rearguard behind us we outnumbered the men of Alsi who were left. Now came from the village in rear of the foe a little company, in the midst of which was one horseman, and that was the king himself. His arm was slung to his breast, and he sat his horse weakly, so that it was true enough that he had been hurt.
So Alsi took this cup and held it, while he sat in the place of the father of the bride. Now, I knew nothing of what should he done, but Berthun did so, and well he took my brother's part, having undertaken for him thus. "It is the custom," said Alsi, "that the bridegroom should state what he sets forth of the dowry to the bride."
That good friend had done what none of us had been able to manage, for he had told the merchant, his friend, to bide in the hall and hear what went on, and then to let him know all else that seemed needful that we should hear. Now he had learned all from the words of Griffin and Alsi, who took no care in their speech, thinking that none in the hall knew the Welsh tongue that they used.
Until this day he and his men had ridden fairly with us, but by the time this attack came they were half a mile behind us." "Do you mean to say that you think Griffin in league with these outlaws, as one may suppose them?" said Alsi, with wrath and more else written in twitching mouth and crafty eyes.
Not much cause to love her uncle Alsi had she; though perhaps, also, not much to make her hate him, except that he had kept her so far away from her own people of late, in a sort of honourable captivity.
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