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So he said, and so it is, and our England is rising from the strife into a mighty oneness that has never been hers before. We went to London before long to see the great wedding that was made for Godwine, my friend, and Gyda, the fair daughter of Ulf the jarl, and niece of Cnut himself. There also were Relf and the lady of Penhurst, and Eldred and Sexberga, and many more of Wulfnoth's thanes.
Then said Olaf to me while the boy was intent on his work: "Here is one who will be a great man in England some day, and I think before long." And I had thought the same; for Earl Wulfnoth's son would rank high for the sake of his birth, and it seemed that he was fitted to take the great place that might be his.
I tried to assure her that her home would be safe, and I promised her many things in order to see her smile, and to please her. Yet when I went down to the ships presently, for none of us slept within Wulfnoth's walls, I was glad that there was no light of burning houses over Penhurst woods, as yet. It was very dark when we marched from Pevensea.
"My father hates Emma the cat as bitterly as he does Streone the fox, which is saying a good deal. The cat's claws are clipped now, maybe." Well, I knew this, and said nothing. One could expect no more from Earl Wulfnoth's son. Nor do I think that any loved Emma the queen much.
There too was Wulfnoth's great house, where I should be welcome, as I knew. So I asked the sisters if this would suit them. "One place is as another to us," they replied. So we went on up the haven, and it was a long pull, so that it was late in the afternoon when we came in sight of the town.
So we went aft to the chief, who stood beside Bertric. And when I came to him he said, pointing westward: "Here comes Earl Wulfnoth, as I think." Then I saw three large ships beating up to us, and the sail of one bore, painted on it, the device of a fighting warrior, Earl Wulfnoth's own ensign.
For there had begun to spring up in my mind a great liking for the words and ways of Sexberga, who had been pleasant in my eyes from the very first time that I had seen her and her mother in Earl Wulfnoth's courtyard. And I think that there is no wonder in this, for these ladies were ever most kind to me, and long were the days since I had spoken with any in such a home as this.
So we came up the Severn river to Berkeley, passing the endless lines of Danish ships that lay along the strand below Anst cliffs and Oldbury. Cnut's ship guard held the ancient fort in force, men said. His men boarded us, but Wulfnoth's name was well known, and it was not Cnut's plan to make an enemy of him.
His ship was a great buss, fitted with a cabin fore and aft under the raised decks, and I could wish for no better chance than this might be. "Would you take passengers for Normandy instead of goods?" I asked him carelessly. "Aye, truly, and gladly if they could pay well." "Now I will tell you that I am Earl Wulfnoth's friend," I said, "and you may know that pay is safe, therefore.
Now, it was not Wulfnoth's way to give reasons thus for aught that he did, and I was surprised that he would do so to me. But I could look at things in his way if I put my own love for Eadmund aside, and I said: "I may not blame you, lord earl, maybe; but it is hard for me to see my friend take what I think the wrong side." "Think no ill of him. It is my doing," Wulfnoth said.
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