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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Let him have the lad for his share of the night's work," he said. And so God gave me the poor lad's life. I had scarcely time to lay him on a sloping bank, where the light which shone so luridly from his burning home might fall upon him, when my brother Elfwyn appeared on the scene with a score of his men.
Father Cuthbert survived him many years, and died honoured and lamented in the last year of the great king. His brother Elfwyn, and the lady Hilda, full of years, having outlived the natural span of man's appointed years, followed him shortly not till they had seen their grandchildren, a numerous and hopeful progeny, grow up around them, and so perpetuate their race upon earth.
"Elfwyn," said I, "what do you suppose was the true object of the sheriff in bidding folks keep indoors tonight?" "I cannot divine, unless he has some deed of blood on hand which he wishes to have undisturbed, all to himself and his underlings." "Siric spoke mysteriously." "Yes; if there is aught going on amiss, he has a hand in it."
We copy the sacred writings. In short, we have a great deal to do, and I fear do it very imperfectly sometimes. I will add a few words only about myself. Elfric, my eldest brother, died young. Elfwyn is now thane, and I, the third boy, was given to the Church, for which I had ever felt a vocation, perhaps from my love to my godfather.
It was the farmhouse occupied by a former lord, Elfwyn of Aescendune, during the Danish invasions, as recorded in a former Chronicle, and was larger and more commodious than usual in those days. There were several smaller houses, or rather huts, around; but if they had inmates, they were all silent perhaps asleep, for the hour was late.
"Old companion in arms," he said, "this makes up for Carisbrooke; well, Alfgar, hadst thou yielded then, thou hadst not been here now. Thy father and I owe thee something for the example thou didst set us." And then he turned to Elfwyn and wished him joy of his son.
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