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"By no means could I have said that, lord. When I left home, I knew not that Rothgar lived. The one in whom I had too much faith was the King. Because I was young and little experienced, I thought him a god; and when I came to his camp and found him a man, I thought only to escape from him. That was why I wore those clothes, Sebert not because I liked so wild a life.
I think proper to mention some few things about the foundation of this University and its colleges. Cantaber, a Spaniard, is thought to have first instituted this academy 375 years before Christ, and Sebert, King of the East Angles, to have restored it A.D. 630.
"If we go in peace," he repeated slowly. "And if we do not?" The Dane shrugged his burly shoulders. "There are no terms for that. You will find it necessary to take what comes." Again there was silence. Sebert put his last question: "How long does the son of Lodbrok give me to consider how I am to order things?" The man shattered the silence with his boisterous laughter.
Again an approving murmur rose from Danish throats; and Rothgar was opening his lips to voice a grateful answer, when a gesture of the royal hand checked him. "Recollect, however, that just now I am not only a war-chief, but also a law-man. I think it right, therefore, to hear what the Englishman has to say for his side. Sebert Oswaldsson, speak in your defence."
So Sebert of Ivarsdale went to his tower unhindered; and the rest of the winter nights, while the winds of the Wolf Month howled about the palisades, he listened undisturbed to his harper; and the rest of the winter days he trod in peace the homely routine of his lordship, in peace and in absent-eyed silence.
Her scorn went so far toward reviving her that for the first time she drew herself away from the support of her women, and even made one of them a sign to rearrange the locks she had disturbed. Lest it revive her beyond the point of docility, Sebert spoke the rest of his message in some haste.
When he spoke, his words were even gracious: "I think the Lord of Ivarsdale has the right of it. The crime the boy purposed was not carried out; and in each case, Lord Sebert was his captor. I am content to trust to his wardership."
If I should go to Rothgar " his voice broke and his eyes sought his friend's eyes as though they were wine-cups from which he would drink courage "if I should go to Rothgar, lord, I could declare myself escaped, and he would be likely to believe any story I told him." Sebert leaped up and caught the lad by the shoulders, then hesitated, weighing it in his mind, half fearing to believe.
Nay, even of the sound of my own voice I am afraid, lest whomsoever is hearing it for all that he speak me fair be twisting the words in his mind into evils I have not dreamed of. Sebert, I do not reproach you with it! I think it all the fault of my own blunders, and therein I find a new terror.
The old cniht bent forward and whispered in his chief's ear: "Make haste, Lord Sebert; they will be cheering in a moment, the churls; so pleased are they at the thought of going home. Hasten with your retiring." It was a clever appeal. Forgetting, for the moment, humiliation in responsibility, the young leader whirled to his men.
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