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She was too good and true to conceal this feeling, or to resent its being forced upon her. After a time she said, "Thurstan, dear, let us go to her." He stretched himself up into as vigorous a gait as he could, when they drew near to the abodes of men. On the way they had spoken but little.
"But under your good allowance, Mistress Alvena, what is `peltry'?" "By my Lady Saint Mary! heard one ever the like?" The peltry shall be of the breadth of thine hand, and no lesser; and say unto him that it shall be of the best sort, and none other. Haste, lad! and be back ere my scissors meet." Thurstan disappeared, and Alvena threw herself down on the settle while she waited for her messenger.
Yet he is said to have entered Normandy, to have laid waste William's native district of Hiesmois, to have supplied a French garrison to a Norman rebel named Thurstan, who held the castle of Falaise against the Duke, and to have ended by restoring Tillieres as a menace against Normandy.
And now the boy whose destiny had made him so early a leader of men had to bear his first arms against the fortress which looked down on his birth- place. Thurstan surrendered and went into banishment. William could set down his own Falaise as the first of a long list of towns and castles which he knew how to win without shedding of blood.
"Who was Mr Harding?" asked Ruth. "Oh, he was a grand gentleman from Lunnon, as had seen Miss Faith, and been struck by her pretty looks when she was out on a visit, and came here to ask her to marry him. She said, 'No, she would never leave Master Thurstan, as could never marry; but she pined a deal at after he went away.
"I have heard of him." "He that we slew was Siward, a monk." "More shame to you." "He that we took was Azer the Hardy, a monk of Nicole Licole," the Normans could never say Lincoln. "And the rest were Thurstan the Younger; Leofric the Deacon, Hereward's minstrel; and Boter, the traitor monk of St. Edmund's." "And if I catch them," quoth William, "I will make an abbot of every one of them."
"My mother tells me, Humphrey," said he, "that when my uncle Thurstan dies all these fair lands will pass to thee. That is not right." "'Tis our uncle's land to do with as he pleases," I answered. "We have naught to do with it. If he likes to leave it to me, what hast thou to say in the matter? 'Tis his affair; not thine, Master Jasper. Besides, I am a Salkeld, and you are not."
For years the poor girl had cried herself to sleep on her pallet-bed, moaning over the blight her carelessness had brought upon her darling; nor was this self-reproach diminished by the forgiveness of the gentle mother, from whom Thurstan Benson derived so much of his character.
Our only friend in the neighbourhood was one Abner Thurstan, a farmer who lived over the border in Blundell parish; but as he was an Anabaptist or Baptist as they were then beginning to call themselves and my father had a great contempt and dislike for the visionary ideas of that sect, even he came but seldom to our house.
After which the royal commissioners came, plundered the abbey of all that was left, and took away likewise "a great mass of gold and silver found in Wentworth, wherewith the brethren meant to repair the altar vessels"; and also a "notable cope which Archbishop Stigand gave, which the church hath wanted to this day." Thurstan, the traitor Abbot, died in a few months.
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