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So Neot heard, and his face flushed a little, and he looked hard at Thord and smiled curiously, saying: "In good truth the old warrior is right, and I am foolish to hide here now I am known. Let me go and sit by him." Then Odda led him to the upper end of the room, and every one rose as he passed by.
"This is all," he said at the end, "and perhaps rather more than all, that is known of the life of the blessed St. Neot." His connection with the series ceased. But his curiosity was excited. He read far and wide in the Benedictine biographies. No trace of investigation into facts could he discover. If a tale was edifying, it was believed, and credibility had nothing to do with it.
But Sigehelm thought that we had met with Satan himself in the shape of the old god, and so also thought Guerir the hermit, who told strange tales of like appearings among the Welsh hills where he was born. As for Alfred the king, he marvelled, and said even as Neot. But he added this: "I know the mine shaft well, and it is in my mind that some day Odin's bones will be found at the bottom thereof.
So we left him on the day after we came, and went back to Athelney, and Alfred was very silent all the way. "What ails you, my king?" I asked him at last, fearing that his pain, which had left him of late altogether, might return. "I will tell you, cousin," he said. "Plainly has Neot shown me that all these troubles have come from my own pride and self will when first I was king.
Petroc, his crozier tucked under his arm, astride a white mule with scarlet ear-tassels and bells and a saddle of scarlet leather. He gazed across the sands to the sea, and turned to St. Neot, who towered at his side upon a flea-bitten grey. "The parish seems to be deserted," said he: "not a man nor woman can I see, nor a trace of smoke above the chimneys." St. Neot tightened his thin lips.
He did so; but he thought it proper to add the following sentence by way of conclusion: 'This is all, and indeed rather more than all, that is known to men of the blessed St. Neot; but not more than is known to the angels in heaven. Meanwhile, the English Roman Catholics were growing impatient; was the great conversion never coming, for which they had prayed so fervently and so long? Dr.
Neot, his kinsman, appeared to him, and promised that on the morrow his misfortunes would end. There are still traces of rude earthworks round the top of Clay hill, which are said to have been thrown up by Alfred's army at this time.
And he pursed up his lips and followed the chant, beating time with his forefinger When, like a thief, the Midianite Shall steal upon the camp, O, let him find our armour bright, And oil within our lamp!" "But where in the world does it come from?" asked St. Neot.
Neot, when his turn came to speak, 'but this state o' things ought to be exposed. He's as big as bull's beef, is St. Neot, ever since he worked that miracle over the fishes, an' reckons he can disparage an old man who was makin' millstones to float when he was suckin' a coral. But the upshot is, they're goin' to pay us a Visitation to-morrow, by surprise.
"Well, then," said the king, "we will ask Neot, for mostly he seems to say exactly what I do not." "Neot has gone to Cornwall, and I had forgotten to give you that message from him. He says he will be there for a time," I said, rather ashamed at having let slip the message from my mind. "So you saw him?" said Alfred.
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