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Gloucester should have been my first halting-place." The Norman knight gazed on the Flemish artisan, for such was Wilkin Flammock, with such a mixture of surprise and contempt, as excluded indignation. "I have heard much," he said, "but this is the first time that I have heard one with a beard on his lip avouch himself a coward."
At length his exertions prevailed, and he came within three yards of the Constable, who was then in a small circle which had been with difficulty kept clear for the purpose of the ceremonial of the day. His back was towards the minstrel, and he was in the act of bending from his horse to deliver the royal charter to Wilkin Flammock, who had knelt on one knee to receive it the more reverentially.
Wilkin Flammock had been unmoved even to insensibility at the imputation of treason so lately cast upon him; but he coloured high, and was confused, while, hastily throwing on his cassock, he endeavoured, to conceal the dishabille in which he had been surprised by the Lady Eveline. Not so his daughter.
"It may not be, good father," said Wilkin, with the same smiling, heavy countenance, which he maintained on all occasions of life, however urgent. "It is true, as thou sayest, good father, that I have mine own reasons for not marching quite so far as the gates of Jericho at present; and lucky I have such reasons, since I had not else been here to defend the gate of the Garde Doloureuse.
The father obeyed; but however willing to afford consolation, his ingenuity and theological skill suggested nothing better than a recitation of the penitentiary psalms, in which task he continued until fatigue became too powerful for him also, when he committed the same breach of decorum for which he had upbraided Wilkin Flammock, and fell fast asleep in the midst of his devotions.
Placing himself at the wicket, which, however, he kept carefully barred, and speaking through a small opening, contrived for such purpose, Wilkin Flammock demanded of the Welshman his business. "To receive rendition of the castle, agreeable to promise," said Jorworth. "Ay? and art thou come on such errand alone?" said Wilkin.
Louis wished to return to France, but despite the truce he could only win his way to the coast by fighting. The Cinque Ports were changing their allegiance. A popular revolt had broken out in the Weald, where a warlike squire, William of Cassingham, soon became a terror to the French under his nickname of Wilkin of the Weald.
Let us hear the story," said Rosa. "Why, yes, certainly," said Lord Robert, and everybody laughed again. "She was all for travel and triumphal processions in those days " Glory stopped her ears and began to sing: Willy, Willy Wilkin, Kissed the maid a-milkin'! Fa, la la! "There were so many things people could do if they wouldn't waste so much time working " Willy, Willy Wilkin Kissed the maid
"Of that we will talk farther to-morrow," said Wilkin Flammock; "if these English and Normans should suspect such a purpose, we should have wild work they must be fully dispersed ere I can hold farther communication on the subject. Meanwhile, I pray thee, depart suddenly, and as if offended with the tenor of our discourse." "Yet would I fain know something more fixed and absolute," said Jorworth.
Let me tell you, the cat will find its way to the cream, though it was brought up on an abbess's lap." "Home, housewife home!" exclaimed her husband, the old huntsman, who was weary of this public exhibition of his domestic termagant "home, or I will give you a taste of my dog lash Here are both the confessor and Wilkin Flammock wondering at your impudence."
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