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He seemed in no wise angry, but rather wishful that I should be with him, and so I got off my horse and went. But it crossed my mind that Wulfnoth the earl liked not to be alone, and suddenly I remembered the way in which two of our Bures franklins had spoken to each other when they would see Dame Gunnhild, Hertha's nurse. It was just in this same wise.
And then I said: "Let me set you on the horse you are weary with keeping step with me." She shook her head, but she said nothing, and so I lifted her and set her in the saddle, and the colour came back to her face. "Thanks, thane," she said, "I am very foolish. I have been setting myself in your Hertha's place as if she knew aught of you now.
But ye know what forays lamed the land, How seasons went, and wealth was spent, and all were weak of hand. "Thereafter happed the heaviest woe, and none could help or save; Nor was there bell to toll a knell above my Hertha's grave. "Ah, had I held my vow supreme all hinderance to control, Maybe these woes God knows! God knows! had never crushed my soul.
Then then, O sad Antaeus, wilt thou yearn For dense green woodlands and the fragrant fern; Then stretch thy form upon the sward, and rest From worldly toil on Hertha's gracious breast; Plunge in the foaming river, or divide With happy arms gray ocean's murmuring tide, And drinking thence each solitary hour Immortal beauty and immortal power, Thou may'st the buffets of the world efface And live a Titan of earth's earliest race.
At "home-made treacle" I made mocking mirth; That was before my better self had birth. At virtue's lilies and languors then I smiled, But Hertha's not thine only goddess, O Earth!
Aye, it is better as it is for both of you, as things must be for a while." And I thought to myself: "Would that you were in Hertha's place;" and then this other thought, "She says right landless and luckless am I, and there is none to trouble about me nor shall there be."
I would go to Wormingford now and then to see that all was going well with the rebuilding of Hertha's home, for Cnut's gift was enough for that also, seeing that all one needed was at hand and did but require setting up by skilled workers. Our priest, Father Oswin, found me such craftsmen as I needed. "Let me rebuild the church first, father," I had said to him when I returned thus rich.
Black were the ruins of my home on the hill above the village, and across the mere woods one burnt gable of Hertha's home stood alone above the hill shoulder to show where Osgod had dwelt in the hollow of the hills beside the ford. Then we rode across the bridge and into the street unchallenged, for all the poor folk had fled from before us thinking that we were some fresh foes.
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