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"I do, Majesty," said Ivo. There is one Sir Ascelin, a man of Gilbert's, in the camp." "Send for him." "This Torfrida," said William, "haunts me." "Pray Heaven she have not bewitched your Majesty." "Tut! I am too old a campaigner to take much harm by woman's sharpshooting at fifteen score yards off, beside a deep stream between. No. The woman has courage, and beauty, too, you say?"
It was the actual site of a house that had belonged to Ascelin's father, for the dead king had shown no consideration to private claims when he was building the great abbey to appease the wrath of the church. The disturbance having been settled by the payment for the grave of a sum which Ascelin was induced to accept, the proceedings were resumed.
"Not bad news, I hope," cried Ivo, as Ascelin clanked into the hall. "We have enough of our own. Here is all Kesteven, as the barbarians call it, risen, and they are murdering us right and left." "A king of words! What care I, or you, as long as the Mamzer, God bless him! is a king of deeds?" "They have done their deeds, though, too. Gospatrick and Marlesweyn are back out of Scotland.
It was in the year 1246 that these papal envoys set out, armed with full powers from the head of the Church, but sadly deficient in the worldly wisdom necessary to deal with such truculent infidels as those whom they had been sent to meet. Ascelin and his comrades journeyed far through Asia in search of a Tartar host, and at length found one on the northern frontier of Persia.
"That blow," said Ascelin, "will be sung hereafter by minstrel and maiden as the last blow of the last Englishman. Knights, we have slain a better knight than ourselves. If there had been three more such men in this realm, they would have driven us and King William back again into the sea."
"Out! wretch! traitor!" cried she. "There is nothing very traitorous in succoring distressed ladies," said Ascelin. "If I can be of the least service to Alftruda the peerless, let her but send, and I fly to do her bidding." So they rode off. Hereward went through Cambridge and Potton like a man stunned, and spoke never a word.
What says Gilbert of Ghent, the wise man of Lic nic what the pest do you call that outlandish place, which no civilized lips can pronounce?" "Lic-nic-cole?" replied Ascelin, who, like the rest of the French, never could manage to say Lincoln. "He says, 'March to me, and with me to join the king at York." "Then he says well.
"On account of her abominable and notorious sorceries; and demands that she shall be given up forthwith to the ecclesiastical power, to be judged as she deserves." "Just so. And then for a load of reeds out of Haddenham fen." "Heaven forbid!" said Ascelin, who had loved her once. "Would not perpetual imprisonment suffice?" "What care I? That is the churchmen's affair, not ours.
They were advised to visit the court of the Great Khan, but Ascelin had seen as much as he relished of Tartar courts, and refused to go a step farther except by force. He was then desired, as he had been so curious to see a Tartar army, to wait until their expected reinforcements arrived.
It was the actual site of a house that had belonged to Ascelin's father, for the dead king had shown no consideration to private claims when he was building the great abbey to appease the wrath of the church. The disturbance having been settled by the payment for the grave of a sum which Ascelin was induced to accept, the proceedings were resumed.
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