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But at last they arrived Michelham and she and drove to Tristram's rooms. Yes, his lordship had been expected at five, but had not arrived yet; he was late. And Michelham explained that Lady Tancred had come, and would wait, while he himself went round to Park Lane to see if Lord Tancred had been there.
She did not know their number. She rang the bell and asked that Michelham should come to her. The old servant saw her ghastly face, and knew from Higgins that his master intended going to Paris that night. He guessed some tragedy had happened between them, and longed to help. "Michelham," she said, "his lordship has gone to London. Do you know to what address?
"The desire to do my Master's will, and to preach the gospel to my kindred. For if Christ shall make them free, then shall they be free indeed." "Hast thou heard of thy mother?" "That she was dead. The message came through Michelham." "I remember an outlaw came here one day and sought me. We did so; but who was thy mother by birth?" "I know not." "But I know." "Tell me, father."
Simon de Montfort, I give thee my life, nay, my all; let me hear from time to time how he fareth, through the good monks of Michelham thou leavest a bleeding heart behind." "Poor woman! yet it is well for the boy; he shall be one of my pages, if he prove worthy." "It is all I ask: now depart ere they are stirring.
"Nay, the motives that led me forth to face the storm still press upon me, I must reach Michelham tonight." An angry hollow gust of wind almost impeded his further progress as he spoke, and choked his utterance. "An inhospitable reception England affords us, after an absence of so many years. Methinks I like Gascony the better in regard to climate."
The hearers gathered in groups and discussed the event. "This explains how he knew all about us!" "It is Martin, little Martin, who should have been our chieftain." "The last of the house of Michelham!" "Turned into a preaching friar!" Grimbeard mused in silence. At last he gave a whispered order. "Treat them both well, to the best of our power. But they must not leave the camp."
The old father had inspired no confidence in his children: she met her outlaw again and again by stealth, and eventually became the bride of Wulfstan, last representative of the old English family who had possessed Michelham before the Conquest .
"Thou hast already told me all that thou dost know, and that thy fathers once owned Michelham." "So the outlaws said, the merrie men of the wood. Oh if my father had but lived." "He would have made thee an outlaw, too." "It might well have been, but my poor mother would have been happy then." "But I think Martin has a scheme in his head," said Hubert shyly. "What is it, my son?" said the earl.
The story of the last Thane of Michelham, as related in the Andredsweald, had often been told around the camp fires, and although he was only in his thirteenth year when he left them, it was all distinctly imprinted in his memory. Oh! how strange it seemed to him to be there on the spot, which but for the conquest of two centuries agone would perhaps have still been the home of his race!
In a former story, the Andredsweald, a tale of the Norman Conquest, he wrote of "The House of Michelham," in the same locality, and he has introduced one of the descendants of that earlier family, in the person of Friar Martin, thinking it might prove a link of interest to the readers of the earlier story.
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