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Then, alas! came the shameful flight of some whom he had loved and trusted, and graced with noble gifts. One Godric, to whom he had given many a goodly steed, leapt upon the horse in his trappings which his lord had owned, and his two brothers fled with him. And with them more than had behoved if these had thought upon The gifts and goods so free bestowed by him, their mighty one.
Fast and faster she rode 'neath the pale moon, her eyes ever gazing towards the gloom of the forest, her heart throbbing quick as the hoof-beats of her horse. So at last, being come to that glade whereby Beltane had his dwelling, she lighted down, and bidding Godric wait, stole forward alone.
"Thou hast heard, Godric, how that my counsellors have long desired me to wed with Duke Ivo, and do yet await my answer to his suit nay hearken! So to-night shall my mind be known in the matter once and for all! Come, my Godric, arm you and saddle two horses come!" "Nay, sweet my lady, what would ye?" "Fly hence with thee, my Godric! Come the horses!" "Fly from Mortain, and thou the Duchess?
"Godric!" she cried, "'tis my good Godric!" and laughed, though with lips a-tremble. "O sweet mistress," quoth he, "now glory be to the kind Saint Martin that I do see thee again hale and well. These many days have I followed hard upon thy track, grieving for thee " "Yet here am I in sooth, my Godric, and joyful, see you!"
He washed himself, and his hair shirt and little cross, in the sacred waters of the Jordan, and returned, after incredible suffering, to become the saint of Finchale. His hermitage became, in due time, a stately priory, with its community of monks, who looked up to the memory of their holy father Godric as to that of a demigod. The place is all ruinate now; the memory of St.
And so he fell asleep: but when he woke, the old hermit lay motionless and breathless. Poor Godric wept, called on the dead man, called on God; his simple heart was set on seeing this one thing. And, behold, he was consoled in a wondrous fashion. For about the third hour of the day the breath returned. Godric hung over him, watching his lips.
The mockery of the Norman nobles, who nicknamed the king and his spouse Godric and Godgifu, was lost in the joy of the people at large. For the first time since the Conquest an English sovereign sat on the English throne. The blood of Cerdic and Ælfred was to blend itself with that of Hrolf and the Conqueror.
"Now, there was one lady to whom I talked with some freedom of my early life and of Sir John Godric. She was interested in all, but when I named Sir John she became at once much impressed, and I told her of his great attachment to Prince Charles.
"But this is how the thing came to shape my life: "About a year after The Man died, there came to my grandfather's house, my mother and I being present, a gentleman, by name Sir John Godric, and he would have my mother tell the whole story of The Man.
See to it that ye find her, therefore, else will I myself seek her through the length and breadth of Mortain until I find her aye, with lighted torches, if need be!" "And dare he threaten us?" cried the Duchess, white hands clenched. "Aye, doth he, lady," nodded Godric, garrulous and grim.
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