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Even in the south the lord of Gwynedd carried everything before him. "If the Welsh are not stopped," wrote a southern marcher, "they will destroy all the lands of the king as far as the Severn and the Wye, and they ask for nothing less than the whole of Gwent."
But Hengist and Ælle's men had touched hardly more than the coast, and the true conquest of Southern Britain was reserved for a fresh band of Saxons, a tribe known as the Gewissas, who landed under Cerdic and Cynric on the shores of the Southampton Water, and pushed in 495 to the great downs or Gwent where Winchester offered so rich a prize.
"Not startling" answered Gwent then paused and repeated "Not startling there's nothing startling nowadays though some folks made a very good show of being startled when my nephew Jack shot himself." Seaton stopped in his walk. "Shot himself? That lad? Was he insane?" "Of course! according to the coroner. Everybody is called 'insane' who gets out of the world when it's too difficult to live in.
His marches were nearly all triumphant; he was welcomed along the whole line of the marches by the peasants to the furthest corners of Gwent. Owen was wise enough to see that no abiding power can be based on a popular rising. He tried to establish a government that the King of England could not overthrow.
And my argument is that if any two peoples are so brainless as to be led into war by their press, they are not fit to live no more fit than the mosquitoes that once made Panama a graveyard." Gwent smoked leisurely, regarding his companion with unfeigned interest. "Apparently you haven't much respect for life?" he said.
He threw on a broad palmetto hat as a shield against the blazing sun, for it was now the full heat of the afternoon, while Gwent solemnly unfurled a white canvas umbrella which, folded, served him on occasion as a walking-stick.
She was fearful lest Gwent should have broken faith with her after all, and have written of her and her vain passion, to the man who already knew of it only too well. She waited patiently for the "god of her idolatry" to look up. At last he did so. But he seemed to have forgotten her presence. His brows were knitted in a frown, and he spoke aloud, as to himself "A syndicate! Old humbug!
I wonder what she's doing, and when we shall see her again?" "Yes I wonder!" Gwent responded vaguely, and the subject dropped.
It was founded, tradition tells us, by a certain Aaron, a pilgrim who landed there with his disciples in the year 507 A.D., and sought shelter upon the sea-girt promontory which has since borne the name of Aaron's Rock. Aaron founded a settlement. To the same place came, about twenty years later, a bishop of Castle Gwent, with a small band of followers.
Is that your prize palace?" He pointed to the hut which they had almost reached. "That's it!" answered Seaton "And I prefer it to any palace ever built. No servants, no furniture, no useless lumber just a place to live in enough for any man." "A tub was enough for Diogenes" commented Gwent "If we all lived in his way or your way it would be a poor look-out for trade!
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