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That pleasantness stopped when I came in, and after the first needful greetings Elfrida froze again, and Erpwald fell silent, as if I was by no means welcome. I could see that I was the third who spoils company. However, the ealdorman came in directly, and I talked to him, and as we paid no heed to those two they took up their talk once more, and presently their words waxed low.
He tells us that the infamous Redwald holds the fortified house there, has murdered the thane Ella, and expelled the family, save the brother, whom he holds to ransom." "No, not to ransom," cried Alfred. "It is his life that is threatened. Oh, take me to Edgar!" "He is close behind, in company with the Ealdorman of Mercia and Siward of Northumbria."
"Ealdorman," said Edwy, impatiently, "why throw up entrenchments? can we not carry theirs by storm? we are all ready, are we not, for a valiant charge?" "Nay, my lord, we are but ill prepared," was the reply, "for such desperate measures.
And in the end it was decided that Osric should take on the bulk of the levy to join the ealdorman, while the bishop and I, and two hundred of the men, should try that crossing at Combwich. "For thus," said Ealhstan, "we can fall on the Danes from behind if they stand or in flank if they retreat."
Near us at this end of the circle were the lesser freemen, and so round each bend of the ring to right and left in order of rank till those thanes were reached who were highest. Before those stood some disputants, as it seemed, and I could not see the faces of the seated thanes clearly at first. But presently I knew the banners they were those of Eanulf the Ealdorman, and of Ealhstan the Bishop.
We last beheld him a boy of twelve, at the date of Elfric's arrival at the court of Edred. By his side rode Siward, Ealdorman of Northumbria. "Who is this?" cried the latter, as he saw Alfred and his attendant waiting to receive him. "Alfred of Aescendune, with a petition for aid against Redwald, who has seized his father's castle." "Alfred of Aescendune!" cried Edgar.
Quite as important in the eyes of the Church as the lack of legislative independence was the lack of judicial independence, which was also a defect of the English Church. The law of the Church as it bore upon the life of the citizen was declared and enforced in the hundred or shire court, and bishop and ealdorman sat together in the latter.
As for the vow you made, the ealdorman says that it could not have been better done. Forgive me for troubling you about it at all." He held out his broad hand, and for a moment I hesitated about taking it. He bore his father's name, but in a flash it came to me that I was wrong.
The ealdorman and I went to the courtyard and left them, feeling that we need say no more. Then through the dusk that horseman whom we had noted clattered up, and called in a great voice to us, asking if we knew where he should find Oswald the marshal, and I answered him and went out into the road to him.
It was plain that the ealdorman took it for granted that I had no feeling now in that direction, and so others would do the same, which was comforting. So I supposed that there was no more to be said on the subject by any one, unless Elfrida chose to have the matter out, and set things on the old footing of frank friendliness again. There I found that I was mistaken at once.
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