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As they went in to the morning meal they met Alef. He was in high good humor with Hereward; and all the more so when Hereward told him his name, and how he was the son of Leofric. "I will warrant you are," he said, "by the gray head you carry on green shoulders. No discreeter man, they say, in these isles than the old earl."
Leofric and the other men searched the woods round, far and wide. The girl mounted her horse, and would go with them. Then they took a bloodhound, and he led them to Grimkel's hut. There they heard of Martin. The ghost must have been Torfrida. Then the hound brought them to the river. And they divined at once that she was gone to Crowland, to Godiva; but why, they could not guess.
According to the old chronicles a church was built at Hampton, in the reign of Canute, by Leofric and Godiva, so well known in the regions of romance, and they gave land here to the Abbey. The church we see was built and rebuilt by the Monastery, but whether on the ancient site we know not.
After the Battle of Hastings, Gytha, the mother of Harold, took refuge in Exeter, and Leofric, the bishop, offered to render homage to William as Royal suzerain; but the Conqueror would have no half-hearted submission, so Exeter closed its gates to the Normans.
North of his conquered territory, Mercia stretched almost across England, from Chester to the Wash, governed by Edwin and Morcar, the two fair grandsons of Leofric, the great earl, and sons of Alfgar. Edwin called himself Earl of Mercia, and held the Danish burghs. The young men seemed the darlings of the half-Danish northmen.
But when awakened, he was seized with a divine terror, and restored in the same hour all that he took away, and so departed, going onward with all his men." So says Leofric, wishing, as may be well believed, to advance the glory of St. Peter, and purge his master's name from the stain of sacrilege.
Algar was soon after expelled his government by the intrigues and power of Harold; but being protected by Griffith, Prince of Wales, who had married his daughter, as well as by the power of his father, Leofric, he obliged Harold to submit to an accommodation, and was reinstated in the government of East Anglia.
One was Martin Lightfoot, the other Leofric the Unlucky. "Who sent you?" asked he surlily, turning his face away. "She." "Who?" "We know but one she, and she is at Crowland." "She sent you? and wherefore?" "That we might sing to you, and make you merry." Hereward answered them with a terrible word, and turned his face to the wall, groaning, and then bade them sternly to go.
But and it was a new and unexpected fact to one of her excitable Southern blood, easily raised, and easily depressed she discovered that neither her husband, nor Winter, nor Geri, nor Wenoch, nor Ranald of Ramsey, nor even the romancing harping Leofric, thought that all was lost. She argued it with them, not to persuade them into base submission, but to satisfy her own surprise.
Waltheof Earl!" moaned the lad, raising his head and letting it fall again. "It is the Atheling!" cried Leofric. Hereward rose, and stood over the boy. "Ah! what was I doing to handle him so tenderly? I took him for the Mamzer, and thought of a king's ransom." "Do you call that tenderly? You have nigh pulled the boy's head off." "Would that I had!
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