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"But how long shall the exile be?" asked Githa, comforted. Harold's brow fell. "Mother, not even to cheer thee will I deceive. The time of the hostageship rests with the King and the Duke.
"She is sibbe to Githa, wife of Godwin," answered the King, "and that is her most perilous connection; for the banished Earl, as thou knowest, did not pretend to fill the throne, but he was content with nought less than governing our people."
Githa his wife, the Dane, a woman with a haughty but noble spirit, imperfect education, and some of the wild and lawless blood derived from her race of heathen sea-kings, was more fitted to stir their ambition and inflame their fancies, than curb their tempers and mould their hearts. We have seen the career of Sweyn; but Sweyn was an angel of light compared to his brother Tostig.
In the face of the younger girl Haco recognised Thyra, the last-born of Githa, though he had but once seen her before the day ere he left England for the Norman court for the face of the girl was but little changed, save that the eye was more mournful, and the cheek was paler. And Harold's betrothed was singing, in the still autumn air, to Harold's sister.
Githa sate alone, bowing her face over her hands desolate; mourning for the fate of her traitor son; and the wounds, that the recent and holier death of Thyra had inflicted, bled afresh. And the holy lady of Edward attempted in vain, by pious adjurations, to comfort Aldyth, who, scarcely heeding her, started ever and anon with impatient terror, muttering to herself, "Shall I lose this crown too?"
Githa his wife, the Dane, a woman with a haughty but noble spirit, imperfect education, and some of the wild and lawless blood derived from her race of heathen sea-kings, was more fitted to stir their ambition and inflame their fancies, than curb their tempers and mould their hearts. We have seen the career of Sweyn; but Sweyn was an angel of light compared to his brother Tostig.
And Harold's heart smote him, that he neglected his brother's prayer and his mother's accusing tears. Now Githa, since the death of her husband, had lived in seclusion and apart from town; and one day Harold was surprised by her unexpected arrival at the large timbered house in London, which had passed to his possession.
Edith is " "Well," said Githa, kindly, for she sympathised with that love which Godwin would have condemned, "though she grieved deeply after thy departure, and would sit for hours gazing into space, and moaning. But even ere Hilda divined thy safe return, Edith knew it; I was beside her at the time; she started up, and cried, 'Harold is in England! 'How?
"Wife, wife," said the Earl, stamping his foot, "hear me and obey me; for my words on earth may be few, and while thou gainsayest me the blood mounts to my brain, and my eyes see through a cloud." "Forgive me, sweet lord," said Githa, humbly.
Her researches into the future had assured her, that the life and death of this fair child were entwined with the fates of a king, and the same oracles had intimated a mysterious and inseparable connection between her own shattered house and the flourishing one of Earl Godwin, the spouse of her kinswoman Githa: so that with this great family she was as intimately bound by the links of superstition as by the ties of blood.
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