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He lay with his ships off Maldon during the rest of the summer, and raided in Essex and Suffolk without hindrance. Now it might be thought that King Ethelred, hearing, as he soon heard, of the taking of Ipswich and of the defeat of the East Anglians at Maldon, would lose no time in gathering an army to expel the invaders.
"The matter of the kingdom is for the Witan of the East Anglians to settle." Then came from out the king's chamber two men bearing bags of gold, and that was set before the princess. It was a noble dowry, and honest was the king in this matter at least. Now were the vows to be said and the bride cup to be drunk, and that was the hardest part of all to Havelok.
At that time there were none of the Franks who knew or cared who Ecgbert was, save Carl; and if by chance my friend had spoken to any of these East Anglians of the Saxon leader under whom he had warred for Carl, the name of Ecgbert would mean naught to them. A Wessex atheling has no honour in East Anglia, and I doubt whether it had ever been heard here.
Cleary was anxious to go too, and it so happened that he had letters of introduction to the gentleman in question. He made his call at once and was duly invited. There were a dozen or more guests at dinner, all of them men. Indeed, there were few white women left at Gin-Sin. With the exception of Sam and Cleary all the guests were Anglians.
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