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'And a friend to King George, and the Hanover line of succession, said Nixon, still walking and speaking very slow. 'You may swear I am, excepting in the way of business, as Turnpenny says. I like King George, but I can't afford to pay duties. 'You are outlawed, I believe, said Nixon. 'Am I? faith, I believe I am, said Ewart. 'I wish I were INLAWED again with all my heart.
He might be inlawed, and rich and powerful, any day in those uncertain, topsy-turvy times; and, for the present, his being a wolf's head only made him the more interesting to her. Women like to pity their lovers. Sometimes may all good beings reward them for it they love merely because they pity.
Since then I have known worldly evil, and worldly good, the storm and the shine of life; I have swept the seas, a sea-king; I have battled with the Dane in his native land; I have almost grasped in my right hand, as I grasped in my dreams, the crown of my kinsman, Canute; again, I have been a fugitive and an exile; again, I have been inlawed, and Earl of all the lands from Isis to the Wye . And whether in state or in penury, whether in war or in peace, I have seen the pale face of the nun betrayed, and the gory wounds of the murdered man.
Hard is it to tell the distress and the marching and the camping, and the travail, and destruction of men, and also of horses, which the English endured till Harold came; and then luckily came also the good old Leofric, and Bishop Alred the peacemaker, and so strife was patched up Gryffyth swore oaths of faith to King Edward, and Algar was inlawed; and there for the nonce rests the matter now.
Hard is it to tell the distress and the marching and the camping, and the travail, and destruction of men, and also of horses, which the English endured till Harold came; and then luckily came also the good old Leofric, and Bishop Alred the peacemaker, and so strife was patched up Gryffyth swore oaths of faith to King Edward, and Algar was inlawed; and there for the nonce rests the matter now.
"Were you one of the eight?" "That I am not," he said. "I and my men were but hired, as Morgan was wont to hire us now and then. When we took you methought that it was well for me, for through you I might be inlawed again, even as I told you." "Who was this leader?" I asked, heeding this last speech not at all. "Tregoz of the Dart, men call him, for he holds lands thereon.
Then he needed men to carry out that which he would do, and he had me forth and spoke to me, saying that if I would manage the Quantock outlaws for him he would forgive me and have me inlawed again. I was to have been hanged that day, Thane, and so you will see that I had no choice. Owen's coming saved me then."
Hard knocks in good humor, strict rules, fair play, and equal justice, for high and low; this was the old outlaw spirit, which has descended to their inlawed descendants; and makes, to this day, the life and marrow of an English public school. One fixed idea the outlaw had, hatred of the invader. On these mitred tyrants the outlaw had no mercy, as far as their purses were concerned.
Wulfhere was waiting for me, looking anxious; but his brow cleared as he saw me, and he asked for the news, saying that he feared I had fallen into the wrong hands. Then I told him I had, as I thought, no more to fear, showing him the sheriff's ring and telling him of my errand. "That is nigh as good as inlawed again," he said gladly. "Anyway, you ride as the sheriff's man now."
The restitution is to be made by you to me personally, so that we can avoid quibbles about Oliver's legal position, he being a rebel confessed, and the day after he is inlawed I will in my turn convey the property in both kinds to him.
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