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Then I asked him how Herluin and the Lady Alftruda came to know aught of each other? and he said that she had been questioning all about the monastery without Abbot Thorold's knowledge, for one that knew Hereward and favored him well. That was all I could get from the knave, he cried so for fright.
While the two kings were in the tent, Herluin, seeing a knight from the Cotentin, with whom he was acquainted, went up to him and inquired after his health. The Danes asked who he was, and the knight replied, "Count Herluin, who caused Duke William's death;" whereupon the wild Danes rushed upon him, and killed him with their battle-axes.
No use! too late! you cannot put it out! It must burn." "You have been dreaming," said one. "I have not," said Hereward. "Is it Lammas night?" "What a question! It is the vigil of the Nativity of St. Peter and St. Paul." "Thank heaven! I thought my old Lammas night's dream was coming true at last." Herluin heard, and knew what he meant. After which Hereward was silent, filled with many thoughts.
And old Brand lay back in his great arm-chair, his legs all muffled up in furs, for he could get no heat; and by him stood Herluin the prior, and wondered when he would die, and Thorold take his place, and they should drive out the old Gregorian chants from the choir, and have the new Norman chants of Robert of Fecamp, and bring in French-Roman customs in all things, and rule the English boors with a rod of iron.
"No, not to Peterborough!" "But my Uncle Brand is abbot there, they tell me, now this four years; and that rogue Herluin, prior in his place." "He is dying, dying of a broken heart, like me. And the Frenchman has given his abbey to one Thorold, the tyrant of Malmesbury, a Frenchman like himself. No, take me where I shall never see a French face.
Off, and hunt for gold, or it will be all gone." The Finn, who was astonished at getting no more from his blow than a few sparks, and expected instant death in return, took the hint and vanished jabbering, as did his fellows. "Now, Herluin, the Frenchman!" said Hereward. "Now, Hereward, the robber of saints!" said Herluin. It was a fine sight.
This is the lad whom you called graceless and a savage; and see, since he has been in foreign lands, and seen the ways of knights, he talks as clerkly as a Frenchman, and as piously as any monk." "The Lord Hereward," said Herluin, "has doubtless learned much from the manners of our nation which he would not have learned in England.
Peter's own chains, the special glory of our monastery, and perhaps its safeguard this day." Some such bombast would any monk of those days have talked in like case. And yet, so strange a thing is man, he might have been withal, like Herluin, a shrewd and valiant man. They brought out all the relics. They brought out the filings themselves, in a box of gold.
Perhaps because both the old bachelors were wishing from their hearts that they had just such a son of their own. And beside, Earl Leofric was a very great man indeed; and the wind might change; for it is an unstable world. "Only, mind, one thing," said the naughty boy, as he dismounted, and halloed to a lay-brother to see to his horse, "don't let me see the face of that Herluin." "And why?
All through the meal, the Duke and his Lords talked earnestly of the expedition on which they were bound to meet Count Arnulf of Flanders, on a little islet in the river Somme, there to come to some agreement, by which Arnulf might make restitution to Count Herluin of Montreuil, for certain wrongs which he had done him.
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