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"Ay, Sir," answered Le Glorieux, "Wisdom must follow, in motley, where Folly leads the way in purple." "How shall I construe that, Sir Solomon?" answered Louis. "Wouldst thou change conditions with me?" "Not I, by my halidome," quoth Le Glorieux, "if you would give me fifty crowns to boot." "Why, wherefore so? Methinks I could be well enough contented, as princes go, to have thee for my king."
They had retained, undiminished, their territorial power and influence; and the great barons in the neighbourhood, partly from their attachment to the party in the state who still upheld the old system of religion, partly because each grudged the share of the prey which the others must necessarily claim, had as yet abstained from despoiling the Halidome.
But so many opportunities, nay so many calls there were for him, who in those days spoke big, to make good his words by his actions, that Simon Glendinning was soon under the necessity of marching with the men of the Halidome, as it was called, of St. Mary's, in that disastrous campaign which was concluded by the battle of Pinkie.
"I don't mean anything personal, of course, but apply the situation to yourself." Halidome took out a toothpick, used it brusquely, and responded: "I shouldn't stand any humbug take her travelling; shake her mind up. She'd soon come round." "But suppose she really loathed you?" Halidome cleared his throat; the idea was so obviously indecent. How could anybody loathe him?
A copy of the Scriptures, translated into the vulgar tongue, had found its way even into the proper territory of the church, and had been discovered in one of the most hidden and sequestered recesses of the Halidome of Saint Mary's. He anxiously requested to see the volume.
If the English knight survived, he might in courtesy extend his protection to them; but if he fell, nothing was likely to screen them from the vindictive measures which the Abbot and convent would surely adopt against the violation of the peace of the Halidome, and the slaughter of a protected guest by one of their own vassals, within whose house they had lodged him for shelter.
The object of the Miller's visit to the Tower of Glendearg was like the purpose of those embassies which potentates send to each other's courts, partly ostensible, partly politic. In outward show, Hob came to visit his friends of the Halidome, and share the festivity common among country folk, after the barn-yard has been filled, and to renew old intimacies by new conviviality.
"And I," answered the Sub-Prior, in the same tone of determination, "say that I will break your journey, come what may!" "Who shall gainsay me," said the knight, "if I make my way by force?" "You will judge wisely to think ere you make such an attempt," answered the monk, with composure; "there are men enough in the Halidome to vindicate its rights over those who dare infringe them."
The walls of his lodging were lined with bookcases, upon which many a volume was stacked. Poor he had been for long, but he had not been in the straits that many men of letters were reduced to in those days. On his desk were strewn pages of manuscript verse which caught the eyes of the visitors at once. "By my halidome! if that be not the poem itself!"
The lights revealed innumerable solemn faces, gleamed innumerably on jewels, on the silk of hats, then passed to whiten a pavement wet with newly-fallen rain, to flare on horses, on the visages of cabmen, and stray, queer objects that do not bear the light. "Shall we walk?" asked Halidome.
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