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It was only a length of sacking made fast to two stout poles, and when they had hoisted me to their shoulders a blanket was thrown over me, and a roll of cloth from one of the bales set under my head, so that I might seem to be in comfort at least. Then the band set out, and we went across the hills seaward and to the west until we saw Watchet below us.
But believe me, sir, the pleasure of seeing one of your face and figure in such a coat as that would not be a small one." And disregarding my blushes and protests, he held up the watchet blue frock against me, and it was near fitting me but for my breadth, the skirts being prodigiously long.
Sir William Wyndham in the following manner.—Being at Watchet, in Somersetshire, near the seat of this gentleman, he was resolved to pay him a visit; putting on, therefore, a jacket and a pair of trowsers, he made the best of his way to Orchard Wyndham, Sir William’s seat; and luckily met with him, Lord Bolingbroke, and several other gentlemen and clergy, with some commanders of vessels, walking in the park.
And then I said idly: "She must be getting old, comrade. When am I to give you that new craft we once spoke of?" Whereon he looked at Nona suddenly, and said: "I mind that old promise. But now there is a ship of another sort that will be a better present. I will ask for that." "What is it?" "Build us a church at Watchet, and set there a priest who shall teach us the way of the Christian.
Then suddenly, as I traced the course that I had laid out in my mind, going over the hunts of the old days, when I rode beside my father and since, I bethought me of one day when the stag, a great one of twelve points, took to the sea just this side of Watchet town, swimming out bravely into Severn tide, so that we might hardly see him from the strand.
And there sat Thorgils, fully armed, on a great horse that was white with foam, but had been carefully ridden. "Ho, comrade! have you heard the news?" he said, gripping my hand. "Twenty times in half an hour," I answered. "But is there somewhat fresh?" "Have any of your twenty told you that these knaves of Welsh have broken peace with us, tried to burn Watchet town and had their heads broken?"
He would see to that, and take all the blame thereof himself, caring nothing for any man, if blame there should be from those who set the war on foot. So although I waited to hear from time to time as Thorgils came and went, getting also word from him when some Danish ship crossed to Watchet, nought was said of Owen's return.
Even as I looked, a great roar of defiance came from our men; but the Danes made no answer, standing still and silent. And that seemed terrible to me. So for a moment they stood, and then, as at some signal, from them broke out that deep chant with its terrible swinging melody, that had come faintly to me from Watchet haven.
If one came from the sea, one must land at Watchet, and then win a path across the Quantocks, and there is the ancient camp of Dowsborough to block the way; or else put into the Parret, and there, at the first landing place, where they say that Joseph of Arimathaea landed, bearing the holy thorn staff in his hand, is the strong hill fort of Combwich, old as the days of that Joseph, or maybe older.
The culprit, who had been a third time an offender, and whose expulsion was at this time deemed irreversible, was brought forth, as at some solemn auto da fe, arrayed in uncouth and most appalling attire all trace of his late "watchet weeds" carefully effaced, he was exposed in a jacket, resembling those which London lamplighters formerly delighted in, with a cap of the same.
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