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"Yes," said Cedric, half speaking to himself, and half addressing himself to Athelstane, "it was in this very hall that my father feasted with Torquil Wolfganger, when he entertained the valiant and unfortunate Harold, then advancing against the Norwegians, who had united themselves to the rebel Tosti.
"Ay, Reginald Front-de-Boeuf," answered she, "it is Ulrica! it is the daughter of the murdered Torquil Wolfganger! it is the sister of his slaughtered sons! it is she who demands of thee, and of thy father's house, father and kindred, name and fame all that she has lost by the name of Front-de-Boeuf! Think of my wrongs, Front-de-Boeuf, and answer me if I speak not truth.
'I cannot tell how long a hag may live, said Elizabeth, 'but she could not have been less than a hundred and thirty years old in the time of Richard Coeur-de-Lion. 'Coeur-de-Lion came to the throne in 1189, said Anne. 'No, I suppose Torquil Wolfganger could not have been dispossessed immediately after the Conquest. But then you know Ulrica calls Cedric the son of the great Hereward.
Can the wrinkled decrepit hag before thee, whose wrath must vent itself in impotent curses, forget she was once the daughter of the noble Thane of Torquilstone, before whose frown a thousand vassals trembled?" "Thou the daughter of Torquil Wolfganger!" said Cedric, receding as he spoke; "thou thou the daughter of that noble Saxon, my father's friend and companion in arms!"
"And while the friends of thy father while each true Saxon heart, as it breathed a requiem for his soul, and those of his valiant sons, forgot not in their prayers the murdered Ulrica while all mourned and honoured the dead, thou hast lived to merit our hate and execration lived to unite thyself with the vile tyrant who murdered thy nearest and dearest who shed the blood of infancy, rather than a male of the noble house of Torquil Wolfganger should survive with him hast thou lived to unite thyself, and in the hands of lawless love!"
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