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Brother Emmanuel would long ago have held early mass in the chantry, but this new inmate appeared by no means disposed to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors. He rubbed his eyes, and seemed scarce to know where he was; but he accepted Edred's offers of assistance, and was soon ready to leave the room in search of the meal to which he was accustomed. All Chad was in a stir of expectation.
But the question before us is not whether men shall drink of this fountain we know that they must do so to live but how they shall drink of it; how and in what manner the waters of life shall be dispensed to them." The boys fixed their eyes eagerly upon him. Julian nodded his head, and Edred's eyes grew deep with the intensity of his wish to follow the workings of the mind of his instructor.
I would I had not conceded all I have done in the interests of peace." Bertram's face was crimson with anger, Edred's eyes had widened in astonishment, whilst Julian burst out in indignant remonstrance and argument. "His ground! his rights! How can he dare say that?
Elfrida fired away, and the next moment it was plain that Elfrida's poetry was more potent than Edred's; also that a little bad grammar is a trifle to a mighty Mouldiwarp. For the walls of Edred's room receded further and further, till the children found themselves in a great white hall with avenues of tall pillars stretching in every direction as far as you could see.
If any of those are in the secret, be it your mission to find out and bring it home to them." "If Brother Emmanuel is found, Chad will be forfeit." Such was the burden of Edred's thoughts as he rode homeward at his brothers' side, just behind their father and mother, at the close of that eventful day's proceedings.
It was like a redoute, which is a fancy-dress ball where the guests may wear any dress they choose, only all the dresses must be of one color. Elfrida saw the whiteness all about her and looked down anxiously at her clothes and Edred's, which she remembered to have been of rather odd colors. Everything they wore was white now.
And when he was close to me I could see that he was in almost as evil plight as had been Grinkel his comrade. The other man I knew not, but he bore a headless spear shaft in his hand, and Edred's shield had a great gash across it. "Master, has Grinkel come?" Edred asked me. "Aye, and is dead. He bade us fly, and could say no more. What of my father?"
Then an intense white light shone so that the children could see nothing else. And then suddenly there they were again within the narrow walls of Edred's bedroom. "Well," said Elfrida in tones of brisk commonplace, "what did it say to you? I say, you do look funny." "Don't!" said Edred crossly. He began to tear off the armor. "Here, help me to get these things off." "But what did it say?"
Swiftly and pleasantly were passing the weeks succeeding the visit of the prince, when a royal messenger appeared, bearing a letter sealed with the king's signet. The old thane, who had passed his youth in more troublous times, and could scarcely read the Anglo-Saxon version of the Gospels, then extant, could not construe the monkish Latin in which it was King Edred's good pleasure to write.
But it irritated her too. "Perhaps you'd like me to go away," she said ironically. And Edred's wholly unexpected reply was, "Yes, please." So she went. And when she was gone Edred sat down on the box at the foot of his bed and tried to think. But it was not easy. "I ought to go," he told himself. "But think of your father," said something else which was himself too.
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