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The prelate seemed favourably impressed with his youthful guest, whom he dismissed with a warm commendation to Dunstan. One of Elfric's ancestors had fought on the side of Offa, and the exploits of this doughty warrior had formed the subject of a ballad often sung in the winter evenings at Aescendune, so that Elfric explored the scene with great curiosity.
They were courtmen of Jarl Thorkel's, as I thought, being better than the wild warriors who made the bulk of Cnut's great host. Elfric came to me when all was quiet thus, and leant on the rail beside me for some time without speaking.
"And, moreover, Eadmund the King, and Elfric, my father, will do him all honour." "I will see to that," growled Ingvar, turning sharply from where he sought another weapon on the wall. Not knowing all he meant, this pleased me, for I thought that we should sail together to Reedham for this, before very long.
I have not the least idea where you are going?" "All in good time. We shall get out easily enough. Are you coming?" Half fearful, yet not liking to resist the prince, and his curiosity pressing him to solve the secret, Elfric followed Edwy down the stairs to the lower hall, where Redwald was on guard.
And his care preserved Elfric for His Own wise ends, until the fight receded, leaving its traces behind it, as when the tide of ocean recedes after a storm and the beach is strewn with wreck bodies of men, of horses, mutilated, dismembered, dead or dying, disabled or desperately wounded.
Every moment Elfric expected to see the beloved faces bending over him; but all seemed strange, till he remembered that Redwald had remained behind at the hall; the four bearers spoke uneasily to one another, and Oswy disappeared in the dusky twilight.
The night set in clear and bright, as we have already seen; and while poor Elfric was wandering about uneasily beneath that brilliant sky, the same stars looked down peacefully upon his home, where all slept sweetly under the fostering care, as they would have said, of their guardian angels. The morn broke brightly, and with every promise of a fine harvest day.
Sigebert the physician, who, like Redwald, was in the confidence of the future king, Edwy, came in to see him, and asked what was the matter. "I am very sick and ill," gasped Elfric. "I suppose you have taken something that disagreed with you too much fish perhaps." "No no I do not " "I understand," said the leech; "you will soon be better; meanwhile, I will account for your absence at chapel.
If you cannot give the credit of a Latin exercise, which you happen to have written, to your future king, you must be selfish; it is my writing, if you give it me, isn't it?" Elfric did not quite see the matter in that light, yet did not care to dispute the point; but his conscience was ill at ease, and he was glad to change the subject.
What is done can't be undone, and Dunstan may eat his leek now, and go to fight Satan again." Elfric looked up in some surprise. "What do you think, my friend; who do you suppose is here in the palace, in the royal apartments?" "Who?" "Elgiva, the fair Elgiva, the lovely Elgiva, dear Elgiva, and her mother.
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