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I think that had we fallen into such hands I should have tried to send a man in all haste to the nearest post of the thingmen, that we might be taken again by warriors at least. But the ladies bore the long journey well, and Elfric's nuns the best. I had little to do with them, having so many cares about me, and was glad enough to leave them in the closer charge of the abbot and his priests.
Vade retro, Sathanas, I will shake off the dust of my feet against thee," another arrow stuck in his frock "thou shalt share the fate of Sodom, yea of Gomorrha; in manus inimici trado te;" by this time his words were inaudible; and he departed, not having accomplished much good, but having nevertheless informed Redwald of two great facts the first, that Elfric's return was blazed abroad; the second, that his own identity was more than suspected.
But all Elfric's efforts could not hide the depression of his spirits, and Edwy, who loved him sincerely for the reader has seen that he was quite capable of love tried to rouse him from it, anxious that no one should suspect the courage of his favourite.
If he were before sinful and careless, let him then confess, and repent, and do alms before his death, that he may not be adjudged to hell, but obtain the Divine mercy. Such is Johnson's version of the 32d canon of Elfric, in which he has preserved closely Elfric's translation, or rather paraphrase, of the passage in St. James.
"Now am I, with good Ingild your other godfather, in Elfric's place toward you," he said; "think of me never as a king, but as a father, Wulfric, my son." And he bade me take my place as Thane of Reedham, confirming me in all rights that had been my father's.
A few nights after Elfric's arrival, when the palace gates had been shut for the night, the compline service said, the household guard posted, and the boys had retired to their sleeping apartments, he heard a low knock at his door. He opened it, and Edwy entered. "Are you disposed for a pleasant evening, Elfric?" "Such pleasure as there is in sleep." "No, I do not mean that.
Edwy quite understood the request conveyed in these words, and turning to the old thane requested him to allow his boys to join the sport on the morrow as a kind of bodyguard, adding some very complimentary words on the subject of Elfric's courage shown in the rescue that afternoon.
Elfric's looks expressed his contempt of the "studies," but he dared not express the feeling before his father. "But I trust, my prince," said Ella, "that we shall not keep you from your duties at court. Dunstan is a severe, although a holy man."
He did not see in the gathering darkness the traces of emotion visible on poor Elfric's countenance, and he began in his usual careless way "How are you, Elfric, my boy; glad Lent is nearly over? What a dismal time that wretched monk preached this morning!" "Edwy, I am utterly miserable: I must tell all; I cannot live like this any longer."
He smiled as he saw by Elfric's bloodshot eyes and unsteady gait, as he rose, upsetting his seat, that his companion was something less master of himself than usual; he felt, it need hardly be said, no remorse, but rather regarded the whole thing as what might now be termed "a jolly lark." "Shall you require bearers, or can you walk to the boat?
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