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Then he held out his ungloved hand to us, which the atheling made a smiling sign for me to kiss, and that we all did, and then he looked pleasantly at us, and went his way from the hall, followed by his close attendants, with the queen and the atheling.
This was an insult that even the heavy and peace-loving nature of Edgar the Atheling could not brook. He sprang to his feet and denounced the charge: "None here is truer or more leal to you, lord king," he said, "than am I, Edgar the Atheling, and my charges, your guests." But King William Rufus was of that changing, temper that goes with jealousy and suspicion.
"Edric Streone is with King Ethelred," said Olaf; "he is not Cnut's man." "He has been Swein's man; and if it suits him will be Cnut's. I will not alter my saying of him." "Ethelred believes in him," answered Olaf, "and Eadmund the Atheling believes in him as in himself." "So much the worse for them," said the earl; "you will see if I am not right.
But rescue came with dawn of day for those desperate men when they heard the horn of Hygelac sound, tones of his trumpet; the trusty king had followed their trail with faithful band. The ancient king with his atheling band sought his citadel, sorrowing much: Ongentheow earl went up to his burg.
My mother dwelt under the protection of the Abbey of Colchester, and, by and by, I served under our Atheling, and, when King Henry's wars in Normandy were over, I followed the Lord of Hundberg's banner, because the men-at-arms were mine own neighbours, and his lady my kinswoman. Roger can testify to my birth and lineage."
He had no children: for some weak reasons of religion or personal dislike, he had never cohabited with his wife. He sent for his nephew Edward, the son of Edmund Ironside, out of Hungary, where he had taken refuge; but he died soon after he came to England, leaving a son called Edgar Atheling. The king himself irresolute in so momentous an affair, died without making any settlement.
Pronounced thane. And so that very day, in the great hall, when wine was flowing and passions were strong, this false knight, raising his glass, bade them all drink: "Confusion to the enemies of our liege the king, from the base Philip of France to the baser Edgar the Atheling and his Scottish brats!"
The men ate their breakfast forward, and brought us some, and the two churchmen came out with the little atheling, and then Sister Sexberga, as I called her, came and shivered in the cold breeze and spoke to Bertric, who was alone on the after deck steering, and so went back to the cabin, where the queen had all things needful for breaking her fast.
"Impossible! she who trusted, who trusts who so loves she whose whole youth hath been consumed in patient faith in me! Resign her! and for another! I cannot I cannot. Take from me the throne! Oh vain heart of man, that so long desired its own curse! Crown the Atheling; my manhood shall defend his youth. But not this offering! No, no I will not!"
Run, one of you, and seek the Princess Edith, and bring her here forthwith!" And while Edgar the Atheling, realizing that this was the gravest of all his dangers, strove, though without effect, to reason with the angry king, Damian, the page, as we have seen, hurried after the Princess Edith.
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