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There could be no thought of bribes now. So I took it, and was glad thereof, for I could not ask my people for rents and dues yet. Elfric asked me of Uldra, as one might suppose, and was glad when he heard of her welfare. "I suppose that when I get back to Medehamstede her folk will want to know how she fares in Normandy, or the like.
The fire and frost they thought were alive, pleased to make sport with men." "As people who ought to know better," observed M. Kollsen, "now think the wind is alive, and call it Nipen, or the mist of the lake and river, which they call the sprite Uldra."
And that angered me with myself, because it was plain that I cared overmuch for the company and pleasant voice and looks of this maiden who was friendless as I. So that was all that was said at the time, and I met Uldra in my foolishness as if this were going to make some difference in her way with me. Which of course it did not. Whereupon I was angrier yet with myself for deeming that it would.
And so I came into the way that leads across the woodland through Ashburnham and so by the upper hammer ponds to Penhurst, and when I was about a mile from the hall I met Uldra coming from a side track. "Why, thane," she said in her bright way, "is aught amiss?" "I have lost my kinsman, lady," I said, "and I have none other left me. Therefore I am sad enough.
"Let it be thus, my queen," I said, after I had thanked her. And she said that it should be so, deeming that I had thought of Uldra not at all, maybe. Then she spoke of my own doings, and Cnut came as we did so. I bowed to him, and he took my hand, calling me "thane" in all good faith.
Then the lady said: "She and I spoke thereof with Uldra but yesterday, and they were both full of your praises for wishing to seek for your Hertha. They will be glad to hear that you have done so, and sad that you have failed to find her." Then there came over me a wish that Uldra knew nought about it.
New it was, and most pleasant to Uldra also, for she had come through all the harried land, where the click of steel or the glint of armour had bidden the poor folk fly in terror, so that one rode through silent and deserted villages, and past farms where nought but the dogs told of life about the place. And that was what I had seen over all England since Swein of Denmark landed, so long ago.
Such companionship as ours had been, strange and full of peril, was a closer bond than even the care of me that had made me think twice or more about Sexberga. Thoughts of her came lightly in idleness, but when I thought of Uldra, there was comradeship that had borne the strain of peril.
"But I was going to tell you this, if I may," she said, "I will pray night and day that things may be well for you and yours in the end." "Aye, pray therefor, Uldra," I answered, and thereafter we said no more, for the hall gates were before us, and the dogs came out to bid us welcome, and the thralls followed them to see who came. I helped her from the horse, and she smiled and went in.
A common forest deer thief could tie him up." "I should have thanked one for slaying me at times," said Relf grimly. "I prefer solid ground to shifty deck planks." So whether it was love of home or loathing of sea that took him back to Penhurst, Relf and I left Godwine on the next morning; and at the nunnery door waited Uldra, looking bright and cheerful and greeting us gladly as we came.
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