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Updated: June 7, 2025
Her face shone with her love and her pride. "I also make my oath," said she, "and I do it in the name of the holy Catharine whose shrine is hard by. I swear that I will hold myself for you until these three deeds be done and we meet once more; also that if which may dear Christ forfend! you fall in doing them then I shall take the veil in Shalford nunnery and look upon no man's face again!
Below lies the winding river, and over yonder you still see the dark Chantry woods which mount up to the bare summit, on which, roofed and whole, stands that Chapel of the Martyr where the comrades beat off the archers of the crooked Lord of Shalford. Down yonder on the flanks of the long chalk hills one traces the road by which they made their journey to the wars.
The tin road, to give it its more proper name, followed the crest of the Hog's Back and the Guildford downs, crossing the various rivers at spots whose very names still attest the ancient passages the Wey at Shalford, the Mole at Burford, the Medway at Aylesford, and the Wantsum Strait at Wade, in which last I seem to hear the dim echo to this day of the Roman Vada.
No, no, Mary, you can go hence and take your cavalier and your priest with you, for here I stay, true to my love and safe in my trust upon his honor!" "Well spoken, on my faith, my golden bird!" said the little master of Shalford. "Let me add my own word to that which has been said.
As the Saxon names of places, with the pleasant wholesome smack of the soil in them, Weathersfield, Thaxted, Shalford, are to the Celtic names of places, with their penetrating, lofty beauty, Velindra, Tyntagel, Caernarvon, so is the homely realism of German and Norse nature to the fairy-like loveliness of Celtic nature.
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