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And my mother had been as a mother also to little Hertha since she was left with only her father to tend her. Our house and Osgod's were akin, though not near, for we both traced our line from Redwald the first Christian king of East Anglia, whose name I bore. Hertha was two years younger than I.
"Redwald, my trusty champion," said Edwy, "this is the first campaign thou hast ever returned from unsuccessful. Tell us, how did Dunstan outwit you?" "By the aid of the devil, my liege." "Doubtless; but we had all hoped for a different result, and that thou wouldst either have left the traitor no eyes in his head, or no head on his shoulders. "Said I not rightly, my Elgiva?"
I thought that the troubles of the time passed lightly on the proud lady and the boy, whose learning was all that she cared for. "Come near, Redwald, my son," the king said, in his voice that had grown so faint of late. "I have a charge to lay on you."
Godwine went with them to a place on the downs called Chancton, where was a great house of the earl. We parted unwillingly; but we might sail at any time if the wind shifted, and the earl would have him go. "When you have done with fighting for Ethelred the Unredy," said the boy to me, "bring Olaf back here, and you and I, friend Redwald, will go a-viking with him.
"Redwald," said the prince, advancing to the window, "let me make you acquainted with my friend and companion, Elfric of Aescendune." The officer started, as if with some sudden surprise, but it passed away so quickly that the beholder might fancy the start had only existed in imagination, as perhaps it did.
"A tall dark man, like a foreign soldier, in plain but rich apparel, a scar on the right cheek." "Stay, my son, I know him; his name is Redwald, and he is the captain of the king's bodyguard. Now describe the other with whom he held converse." "Father, I cannot."
The door was fastened securely, and while the axes were doing their destructive work upon it, the mocking laughter was again heard. Redwald had become so enraged that he mentally vowed the direst vengeance upon the untimely jester, when the door burst open and he rushed in. "Where is he? Surely there was some one here?" "Who could it be? We all heard the laughter."
Redwald had, as we shall see, deep designs of his own to serve also, but they had been locked for years in his own breast, and no servant could seem more trusty and faithful than he did, or act with more energy in his master's cause. The forces of Edwy, as we have related, left St. Alban's on the second morning, and travelled, horse and foot, very rapidly all that day.
I have not the least idea where you are going?" "All in good time. We shall get out easily enough. Are you coming?" Half fearful, yet not liking to resist the prince, and his curiosity pressing him to solve the secret, Elfric followed Edwy down the stairs to the lower hall, where Redwald was on guard.
"It is little less than treason to the queen of youth and beauty to be thus absent, my Elgiva, but remember he has been unwell, and Redwald told me that for prudential reasons they delayed his return to court." "And your brother Edgar " "Is somewhere in Mercia: the churlish boy has declined our invitation to honour our feast with his presence. We do not want his serious face at the board.
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