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When the pair came toward her over the carpet of leather-hued leaves, she put out a white hand in beckoning. "Come here, my Valkyria, and let me try if I can make you look still more like a gay bird from over the East Sea." "You have made me look a very splendid bird, lady," Randalin said gratefully, as she knelt to receive the woodland crown.
When I got my senses again, I found my way to the nuns of St. Mildred's; and they gave me food, and I rode hither." "It is the Troll's luck! I yet, go on. The day will come! Did they further harm within the castle? Have you women-kin?" Randalin hesitated. Would it not be safer if she could deny altogether the existence of a daughter of Frode?
One was weeping; and one a slip of a girl with a face like a rose was trying vainly to rise from her place beside a drunken warrior, who held her hands and strove to pull her lips down to his wine-stained mouth. In imagination Randalin felt again Norman's arm around her waist, and a wild pity was quickened in her. This was worse than drudgery, worse than blows!
Like a merciless answer came a scream from the girl, a short piercing cry of horror and loathing and agonized appeal as she was drawn down upon the leering face. At that cry, childhood's blind trust died forever in Randalin. As she rode past the pair, with clenched hands and flashing eyes, she knew without reasoning that tortures would not tear from her the secret of her disguise.
A hundred plans are in my mind against the time that this peace shall be over, and we are obliged to return to that loathful house where we suffer so much with dulness that the quarrels of my little brats are the only excitement we have." Still kneeling for the white fingers to pat and pull at her head-dress, Randalin looked up wonderingly.
Missing the Mercian, it struck down a man at his side; and high above the voice of the ill-fated King rose the shrill alarms of the traitor's heralds. "Fly, ye men of Dorsetshire and Devon! Fly and save yourselves! Here is your Edmund's head!" Randalin stared about her, doubting her senses. But light had begun to dawn on Canute. He wheeled sharply, as Thorkel pushed his horse to their sides.
I want you to tell me what he is like in his temper." "It would be more easy to tell you what he is unlike," Randalin answered slowly; "for in no way whatever is he like your King Edmund." She sat awhile in silence, her eyes absently following the course of the wind over a slope of bending grain.
Unbidden, memory raised before Randalin a picture of the English camp-fire in the glade, with the English King standing in its light and the hooded figure bending from the shadow behind him, its white taloned hand resting on his sleeve. An instant she shivered at it; then again her foot stirred with unendurable restlessness. If he was dead, he was dead, and there was no more to be said.
Some of them were engaged in the ghastly business of bandaging wounds, and some were already asleep; but the greater number lounged in the firelight, drinking and feasting on strips of venison which serfs had cooked in the flames. Through the fog of her drowsiness Randalin recognized them slowly. Yonder was the Englishman who had found her in the bushes.
Let no one say that I am not a witch for cleverness! Ah, you can have the best fun that ever any maid could have! If you could but make him believe something about that Danishman that Teboen saw last winter!" "Last winter?" Randalin repeated. "Oh! I had altogether forgotten him. It seems that it has not been truthfully spoken when " The little Angle smothered the rest in her rapturous embrace.
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