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But Ralph rode slowly, since he had naught to see to, save himself, so that he was presently left alone. Now he looks aside, and sees something bright-hued lying under a big stone where the last rays of the sun just caught some corner of it. So he goes thither, deeming that mayhappen one of the company had dropped something, pouch or clout, or what not, in his haste and hurry.
In a sense, the risk was Osborn's, who would pay for his neglect, but the flood might damage his tenants' fields, and even if the damage were confined to Osborn's, Kit hated to see crops spoiled. "You had better begin," he said. "I'll try to get help." "Mayhappen folks will come for you, though they wadn't for t' maister," one replied. "We'll need aw you can get before lang."
Now behold this that now is, is the occasion, and there will not be another; for when my love comes home hither and beholdeth me, think thou how all the desire which has been gathering in his heart this while will blossom and break forth toward me; and mayhappen he will make but little semblance of it before other folk, for proud and high of heart is he; but he will seek occasion to find me alone, and then shall I be with him as the lark in the talons of the sparrow-hawk, and he will do his pleasure of me, and that with all the good-will of my heart.
"Wilt thou tell me thereof?" said Christopher. "Mayhappen," said Simon, "if to-morrow comes and goes for both of us twain."
Then Regin forged another sword, and brought it to Sigurd, who looked thereon. Then said Regin, "Belike thou art well content therewith, hard master though thou be in smithying." So Sigurd proved the sword, and brake it even as the first; then he said to Regin "Ah, art thou, mayhappen, a traitor and a liar like to those former kin of thine?"
So, as abovesaid, she was troubled and silent amongst the joy of the others. That saw Sir Aymeris the castellan; and when they had broken fast and were getting to horse, he came to her and said: Lady, the day is yet young, and if we fetch a compass by a way that I wot of we shall see places new to thee, and mayhappen somewhat wonderful, and yet come home timely to the castle. Wilt thou?
'Mayhappen not, he said; 'yet yesterday I could not but look into the slaughter to come, and it seemed to me a grim thing, and darkened the day for me; and I grew acold as a man walking with the dead. But tell me: thou sayest I shall not die; dost thou say this only because I am become dear to thee, or dost thou speak it out of thy foresight of things to come?
He reined up at the edge of the throng, and spoke in a loud voice, so that all might hear him: "Fellows, these are the tidings; even while our priest was speaking we heard a horn blow far off; so I bade the sergeant we have taken, and who is now our fellow-in-arms, to tell me where away it was that there would be folk a-gathering, and what they were; and he did me to wit that mayhappen Sir John Newton was stirring from Rochester Castle; or, maybe, it was the sheriff and Rafe Hopton with him; so I rode off what I might towards Hartlip, and I rode warily, and that was well, for as I came through a little wood between Hartlip and Guildstead, I saw beyond it a gleam of steel, and lo in the field there a company, and a pennon of Rafe Hopton's arms, and that is blue and thereon three silver fish: and a pennon of the sheriff's arms, and that is a green tree; and withal another pennon of three red kine, and whose they be I know not."
And though we've mayhappen got contrairy ways o' thinking about a many things one man lays down his land one way an' another another an' I'll not take it upon me to speak to no man's farming, but my own this I'll say, as we're all o' one mind about our young squire.
The Earl said: "Well, so it shall be then; and presently thou shalt go out of this guard-room a free man. But abide a while." Therewith he drew a stool to him and sat down, and spake not for a long while; and Christopher abode his pleasure; at last spake the Earl: "One day, mayhappen, we may make a wedding for thee, and that no ill one."
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