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"Nay, nay, Eadwin, I shall do very well if not, there is not much left to live for now only you must take care of yourself, or they may avenge themselves on you; indeed, when the baron hears the tale, I doubt not that he will send for you, and then I may not be able to save you you must fly." "Not till I know " "Yes, this very night thou knowest the Deadman's Swamp?" "Well."
"He was his foster brother," said Etienne, covering his face as conscience smote him, for he remembered the death of Eadwin, and the way in which the mother of the murdered boy had returned good for evil. "Then, my son, thou canst not acquit thyself of blame."
But there was one act of mercy of which he had been the object, which above all influenced and changed his heart towards the English. And that was the Christian charity he had received from the aged Englishwoman, the nurse of Wilfred, whose son Eadwin he had so cruelly slain in the Dismal Swamp.
Conscious that resistance was hopeless, Eadwin submitted quietly to be bound, listening nevertheless so eagerly for sounds from without that Ralph marked his strained attention; Etienne was intent upon his designed cruelty. "Once more, wilt thou answer me?" he said. "No," said his victim, quietly and firmly. "Then thou must suffer. Thou shalt die as thy St.
So they left the body of poor Eadwin where it had fallen, and being now spent with hunger, they poured the soup into basins and ate it greedily. Suddenly the door was burst open, the room was filled with their foes uplifted weapons, deadly blows, cries, curses in English and French in short, such a melee ensued that it passes all our power to describe it.
He had cruelly slain young Eadwin, and the mother of the murdered lad for he knew her had rescued him from what his conscience told him would have been a deserved fate, at least at the hands of the English. There are crises in all men's lives and this was one in the life of Etienne when they choose good or evil. And from that time, new impressions had power over him.
Lanfranc's nave was pulled down, and a new nave and transepts were constructed, leaving but little of the original building set up by the first Norman archbishop. Finally, about A.D. 1495, the cathedral was completed by the addition of the great central tower. From a Norman drawing inserted in the Great Psalter of Eadwin, in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Yet he pleaded for Pierre de Morlaix on the eventful night recorded in our last chapter; but the cruel death of Eadwin at the hands of the invaders rendered his prayers useless. The whole feeling of the little community was with Wilfred in the matter; besides, they wanted no prisoners, and dared not set one free to disclose the secret of their refuge.
And before the astonished Eadwin could fly, the son of his lord fulfilled his own command, and seized the culprit by the collar. "How didst thou dare, thou false thief, to kill one of our hares? Dost thou not know the penalty?" The unhappy lad stammered out faint excuses, in broken English; "he had not meant to do it the thing rose up so suddenly" and the like.
What could the prior want of him? thought the lad; had he heard of the quarrel, through young Eadwin, and did he disapprove of it? At all events, he would be saved the trouble of many words; and he entered.
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