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The Prince paused a moment beneath the gallery of the Lady Alicia, to whom he paid his compliments, observing, at the same time, to those around him "By my halidome, sirs! if the Knight's feats in arms have shown that he hath limbs and sinews, his choice hath no less proved that his eyes are none of the clearest."
He turned to Halidome and whispered: "Can you stand that old woman?" His friend fixed his fine eyes on him wonderingly. "What old woman?" "Why, the old ass with the platitudes!" Halidome's countenance grew cold, a little shocked, as though he had been assailed in person. "Do you mean Pirbright?" he said. "I think he's ripping."
If you care not in person, my lord, to deal with this troublesome matter, let me implore you to go instantly to Edinburgh, and make what friends you can in our behalf, while I in your absence will, as Sub-Prior, do my duty in defence of the Halidome. If I succeed, may the honour and praise be yours, and if I fail, let the disgrace and shame be mine own."
Edward had no sooner left the chamber, than he despatched messengers to one or two families of the Halidome, with whose sons his brother and he sometimes associated, to tell them that Halbert Glendinning had been murdered by an Englishman, and to require them to repair to the Tower of Glendearg without delay.
The emperor sprang aside and exclaimed: "This transcends all the impudence I ever heard! A modest demand, by my halidome! Why didn't you ask for the imperial revenues at once, and be done with it?" But the monarch had given his word, and he kept it.
"Enough of this let me hear thy tidings." "Sir John Foster," said Morton, "is about to send a party into Scotland to waste the Halidome." "How! without waiting my presence and permission?" said Murray "he is mad will he come as an enemy into the Queen's country?" "He has Elizabeth's express orders," answered Morton, "and they are not to be trifled with.
"In truth," said the Abbot, "and the doubt is well thought on, were it as well removed; for I scarce know in the Halidome so fitting a place of refuge, yet see I not how to recommend it to our worshipful guest, considering the unrestrained petulance of this headstrong youth." "Tush! reverend sirs what would you make of me?" said Sir Piercie Shafton.
And here, Heaven help me, he was going to carry me off to the Pole! And on such a vile errand too! For there was something degrading in it. Your true whaleman glories in keeping his harpoon unspotted by blood of aught but Cachalot. By my halidome, it touched the knighthood of a tar. Sperm and spermaceti! It was unendurable.
On the other hand, to deliver up to England, or, which was nearly the same thing, the Scottish administration, an English knight leagued with the Piercie by kindred and political intrigue, a faithful follower of the Catholic Church, who had fled to the Halidome for protection, was, in the estimation of the Sub-Prior, an act most unworthy in itself, and meriting the malediction of Heaven, besides being, moreover, fraught with great temporal risk.
"It is two days since I stretched my legs, and, by my halidome, I shall forget how to use them, without more practice." "Methinks," replied the Knight, smiling, "it is less than a week since I saw legs much resembling thine moving with marvellous celerity." "When this copper-hide here showed us Venn's band, within a hundred yards of the old wigwam, right under Winthrop's nose, in the swamp.
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