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But his spirit was broken; indeed, so was the spirit of every Englishman; and he mounted his horse sullenly, and rode alongside of Gilbert, unarmed for the first time for many a year. "You had better have taken me," said Sir Ascelin aside to the weeping Alftruda. "I? helpless wretch that I am! What shall I do for my own safety, now he is gone?" "Let me come and provide for it."
"Doubtless. Even when he committed that great crime at Peterborough " "For which he and all his are duly excommunicated by the Bishop," said the secretary. "He did a very courteous and honorable thing." And Ascelin told how he had saved Alftruda, and instead of putting her to ransom, had sent her safe to Gilbert. "A very knightly deed. He should be rewarded for it."
Here they were startled by the first act demanded of them, they being compelled to pass between two large fires as a purification from the suspicion of evil. On coming into the presence of Bathy, the general, they, more terrified perhaps than Ascelin, did not hesitate to fall upon their knees. The journey was a frightful one.
Sir Aswart, Thorold the abbot's man, was not likely to forgive him for turning him out of the three Mainthorpe manors, which he had comfortably held for two years past, and sending him back to lounge in the abbot's hall at Peterborough, without a yard of land he could call his own. Sir Ascelin was not likely to forgive him for marrying Alftruda, whom he had intended to marry himself.
"Quick, then, butler! and after that pack up the Englishman's plate-chest, which we inherited by right of fist, the only plate and the only title-deeds I ever possessed." "Now, Sir Ascelin," as the three knights, the lady, and the poor children ate their fastest, "listen to me.
Give it her!" said he, hanging down his head like a rated cur. "Ascelin of Lincoln, once Ascelin of Ghent, there was a time when you would have done what would you not? for one glance of Torfrida's eyes. Stay. Do not deceive yourself, fair sir, Torfrida means to ask no favor of you, or of living man. But she commands you.
I cannot eat my meat for thinking of him. Kill him I must." "And so must I." "Then we are both agreed. Let us work together, and never mind if one's blood be old and the other's new. I am neither fool nor weakly, as thou knowest." Ascelin could not but assent. "Then here. We must send the King's message. But we must add to it." "That is dangerous."
"I don't know that," said Ascelin, "my Lord Uncle; I shall never sing 'Dominus Illuminatio' till I see your coffers illuminated once more by those thirty thousand marks." "Or I," said Oger le Breton, "till I see myself safe in that bit of land which Hereward holds wrongfully of me in Locton."
"You will need all your money for yourself," said Siward the White, riding back. "Are you Sir Ascelin of Ghent?" "That am I, your host of old." "I wish I had met you in better company. But friends we are, and friends must be." And he dismounted, and did his best for the wounded man, promising to return and fetch him off before night, or send yeomen to do so.
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