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Updated: May 29, 2025
I foresaw it, foretold it, I believe to Alftruda herself, foretold that he would not keep his bought earldom three years. What a people we are, we English, if Gospatrick is, as he is, the shrewdest man among us, with a dash of canny Scots blood too. 'Among the one-eyed, the blind is king, says Torfrida, out of her wise ancients, and blind we are, if he is our best. No.
I know where to get scarlet toadstools, and I put the juice in his men's ale: they are laughing and roaring now, merry-mad every one of them." "But not he?" "No, no. He is with the Marquis. But in madness comes out truth; and that long hook-nosed body-varlet of his has told us all." And she told Torfrida who Hereward was, and the secret mark.
All men wondered at the white ghost; but Martin walked behind her, his left finger on his lips, his right hand grasping his little axe, with such a stern and serious face, and so fierce an eye, that all drew back in silence, and let her pass. The portress looked through the wicket. "I am Torfrida," said a voice of terrible calm. "I am come to see the Lady Godiva. Let me in."
"She is come to be a nun!" whispered the portress to the next sister, and she again to the next; and they all gabbled, and lifted up their hands and eyes, and thanked all the saints of the calendar, over the blessed and miraculous conversion of the Lady Torfrida, and the wealth which she would probably bring to the convent.
Etheldreda, a virgin goddess, with all the host of heaven to back her, might she not, by intercession with powers still higher than her own, destroy both body and soul in hell? "We are betrayed. They are going to send for the Abbot from Angerhale," said Torfrida at last, reeling from the door, "All is lost." "Shall we burst open the door and kill them all?" asked Ranald, simply. "No, King, no.
And always on the mound opposite, while darts and quarrels whistled round her head, stood Torfrida, pointing with outstretched scornful finger at the stragglers in the river, and chanting loudly, what the Frenchmen could not tell; but it made their hearts, as it was meant to do, melt like wax within them. "They have a counter witch to yours, Ivo, it seems; and a fairer one.
And Torfrida turned herself utterly to serve the Lady Godiva, and to teach and train her child as she had never done before, while she had to love Hereward, and to work day and night, with her own fingers, for all his men. All pride, all fierceness, all care of self, had passed away from her. In penitence, humility, obedience, and gentleness, she went on; never smiling; but never weeping.
Suddenly, in the middle of the story of Torfrida of the Towers a lady who had strangled her children, and ever afterwards haunted the battlements, headless, and in a night- gown the door opened softly, and Miss Robinson entered to ask how much longer they would be. Miss Robinson was wearing a white frock, and the effect of her entry was tremendous.
Only at last, "My child, my child," cried Godiva, "better for thee, body and soul, to be here with me in the house of God, than there amid evil spirits and deeds of darkness in the wild woods." "Not a cloister, not a cloister," cried Torfrida, shuddering, and half struggling to get away.
And Torfrida went out with them to meet Count Robert, and looked for Hereward, till her eyes were ready to fall out of her head. But Hereward was not with them. "He must be left behind, commanding the army," thought she. "But he might have sent one word!" There was a great feast that day, of course; and Torfrida sat thereat: but she could not eat.
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