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Moreover, he is a very great man, or has been such once, and he thinks himself one still. He has been accustomed to command men, whole armies; and he will no more treat these Normans as his equals, than they will treat him as such. His own son-in-law, Hugh of Evermue, has to take hard words, thoroughly well deserved, it may be; but all the more unpleasant for that reason.
She accepted this as part of her penance, with thankfulness and humility. She had heard that Sir Hugh of Evermue was a gentleman of ancient birth and good prowess, and she thanked the King for his choice. Let the priest tell her daughter that she commanded her to go with him to Winchester. She did not wish to see her. She was stained with many crimes, and unworthy to approach a pure maiden.
A knight rushes in, to fall headlong down, cloven through the helm: but Hereward's blade snaps short, and he hurls it away as his foes rush in with a shout of joy. He tears his shield from his left arm, and with it, says Gaimar, brains two more. But the end is come. Taillebois and Evermue are behind him now; four lances are through his back, and bear him down to his knees.
The pure child shuddered, and was married to Hugh of Evermue, who is not said to have kicked her; and was, according to them of Crowland, a good friend to their monastery, and therefore, doubtless, a good man. Once, says wicked report, he offered to strike her, as was the fashion in those chivalrous days.
And Alftruda went with her, taking a goodly company of knights to be her escort, while Hereward remained at Bourne with few to guard it. And knowing this, to Bourne came Ascelin and Taillebois, Evermue, Raoul de Dol, and many another Norman, and burst in upon Hereward in some such fashion as he had done himself some ten years earlier. "Felons," he shouted, "your king has given me his truce!
He saw Ivo Taillebois; he saw Oger; he saw his fellow-Breton, Sir Raoul de Dol; he saw Sir Ascelin; he saw Sir Aswa, Thorold's man; he saw Sir Hugh of Evermue, his own son-in-law; and with them he saw, or seemed to see, the Ogre of Cornwall, and O'Brodar of Ivark, and Dirk Hammerhand of Walcheren, and many another old foe long underground; and in his ear rang the text, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
"And to cover any little blots in his escutcheon, I have made him an earl, as I may make you some day." "Your Majesty, like a true king, knows how to reward. Who is this knight whom you have chosen for my lass?" "Sir Hugh of Evermue, a neighbor of yours, and a man of blood and breeding." "I know him, and his lineage; and it is very well. I humbly thank your Majesty."
With his shield he beat out the brains of two, but now Taillebois and Evermue are behind him, and with four lances through his back he falls, to rise no more. So perished the last of the English. Hypatia
"Take the witch's accursed eyes off me!" and he covered his face with his hands. "I shall be overlooked, planet struck. Hew the witch down! Take her away!" "Hugh of Evermue, the dead man's daughter is yours, and the dead man's lands. Are not these remembrances enough of him? Are you so fond of his memory that you need his corpse likewise?" "Give it her!
And doubtless Holy Church contrived that it should happen without sin, if it conduced to her own interest. And little Torfrida then, it seems, some sixteen years of age was married to Hugh of Evermue. She wept and struggled as she was dragged into the church. "But I do not want to be married. I want to go back to my mother."
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