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"Ay, ay," he growled; "I cannot keep my voice quiet." Neot laughed, and then turned to me and held out his hand for the king's letter, which I gave him. He ran his eyes over the writing very quickly, and then said: "Here is nothing private; shall I read aloud?" But the thanes fell to talking quickly, and I nodded. "Alfred the king to his cousin Ranald Vemundsson, greeting.
It is said of him that when Neot showed him the faults in his ways, he asked that some sickness, one that might not make him useless or loathsome to his people, might be sent him to mind him against his pride, and that so he had at first one manner of pain, and now this which I had seen. It may be so, for I know well that so he made it good for him, and he bore it most patiently.
Mr Widger of Callington, Mr Sam Nicholls of St Neot Captain Hocken." Cai's cheeks in rosiness emulated those of the two men with whom he shook hands. "Captain Hocken," she explained to them, "takes a great interest in education." For a moment it struck Cai that the pair, on hearing this, eyed him suspiciously; but his brain was in a whirl, and he might easily have been mistaken.
Ebba, St. Neot, St. Ninian, and Cunibert the Hermit. Their austerities, their virginity, and their miraculous powers were described in detail. The public learned with astonishment that St Ninian had turned a staff into a tree; that St. German had stopped a cock from crowing, and that a child had been raised from the dead to convert St. Helier.
"Scald have I been since I could sing, and nought have I heard like this." "Some day," Neot said; "it is enough now that you should know what you have heard." So ended that strange song strife on Neot's quiet hillside. The sun set, and the fleecy mists came up from the little river below, and we sat silent till Alfred rose and said farewell, and we went to the guest house in the village.
I and my comrades hunted and hawked day by day until the evening came, and then would sup plainly with the king, and then sit at Neot's door in the warm evening, and talk together till the stars came out. Many things we spoke of, and Neot told me what I would. I cannot write down those talks, though I mind every word of them. But there was never any talk of the runes I had offered.
Then one evening the song woke within the scald's breast, and he said to Neot: "Many and wise words have you spoken, Father Neot. Hear now the song of Odin the Havamal and tell me if you have aught to equal it." "Sing, my son," the good man answered. "Wisdom is from above, and is taught in many ways."
Now I think that none will wonder that after we had been with Neot for those ten days, we were ready and willing to take on us the "prime signing," as they called it, gladly and honestly. So we were signed with the cross by Neot, and Alfred and Ethelnoth and Guerir were our witnesses.
Only the loved presence of Neot the holy is wanting, for he died in Cornwall in that year of the end of the troubles, and I think that in him I lost more than any save Alfred himself.
Neot. Whereon, crawling on his hands and knees, he kissed the face of the holy martyr, and "perceived such a sweet odor proceeding from the holy body, as he never remembered to have smelt, either in the palace of the king, or in Syria with all its aromatic herbs." Quid plura? What more was needed for a convent of burnt-out monks? St. Waltheof was translated in state to the side of St.
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