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"I know not why we, countesses and ladies, should have less knowledge of the laws of love than those gayer dames of the South, whose blood runs to judge by her dark hair in the veins of yon fair maid." There was a silence. Torfrida was the most beautiful woman in the room; more beautiful than even Richilda the terrible: and therefore there were few but were glad to see her as it seemed in trouble.
"'Blessed are the barren, and they that never gave suck, saith the Lord." "No! Not so!" cried Torfrida. "Better, Countess, to have had and lost, than never to have had at all. The glutton was right, swine as he was, when he said that not even Heaven could take from him the dinners he had eaten. How much more we, if we say, not even Heaven can take from us the love wherewith we have loved.
And Hereward did; and went back again like a man stunned. After a while there came by boat to Crowland all Torfrida's wealth: clothes, jewels: not a shred had Hereward kept. The magic armor came with them. Torfrida gave all to the abbey, there and then.
True: but he wished to forget likewise Torfrida fasting and weeping in Crowland. He could not bear the sight of Crowland tower on the far green horizon, the sound of Crowland bells booming over the flat on the south-wind. He never rode down into the fens; he never went to see his daughter at Deeping, because Crowland lay that way.
"Heavens, how beautiful you are!" cried Hereward, as her voice shaped itself into a song, and her eyes flashed, at the remembrance of her southern home. Torfrida was not altogether angry at finding that he was thinking of her, and not of her words. "Peace, and listen.
III. Hereward in England Having settled his affairs in Flanders, in due time he landed once more in the Wash with Torfrida and the child and two shiploads of stout fighters, with whom he went through Fenland raising an army.
He had nothing to bring against her, which could justify the dissolution of the holy bond: unless " "Unless I bring some myself?" "There have been rumors I say not how true of magic and sorcery! Torfrida leaped up from her seat, and laughed such a laugh, that the priest said in after years, it rung through his head as if it had arisen out of the pit of the lost.
I know your ways now, Torfrida." The winter passed in sweet madness; and for the first time in her life, Torfrida regretted the lengthening of the days, and the flowering of the primroses, and the return of the now needless wryneck; for they warned her that Hereward must forth again, to the wars in Scaldmariland, which had broken out again, as was to be expected, as soon as Count Robert and his bride had turned their backs.
"What care I?" said Torfrida. "But if your friend wishes to have the Marquis's favor, he would be wise to trust him, at least so far as to tell his name." "I have told him so. I have told him that you would tell him so." "I? Have you been talking to him about me?" "Why not?" "That is not well done, Arnulf, to talk of ladies to men whom they do not know."
"There is a cross upon his throat, beneath his chin, pricked in after their English fashion." Torfrida started. "Then, then the spell will not work upon him; the Holy Cross will turn it off." "It must be a great Cross and a holy one that will turn off my charms," said the old hag, with a sneer, "whatever it may do against yours.
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