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With many fair words they begged him to stay with them, and Olaf agreed to it, and both he and Orn entered the king's court. King Harald and Gunnhild set so great a store by Olaf that no foreigner had ever been held in such honour by them. Olaf gave to the king and Gunnhild many rare gifts, which he had got west in Ireland. King Harald gave Olaf at Yule a set of clothes made out of scarlet stuff.
When Sunday came, Yule inquired of his daughter if she had any engagement for the afternoon. 'Yes, I have, she replied, with an effort to disguise her embarrassment. 'I'm sorry. I thought of asking you to come with me to Quarmby's. Shall you be away through the evening? 'Till about nine o'clock, I think. 'Ah! Never mind, never mind.
And what mistake? 'Father heard that you were the writer. 'I? Jasper stopped short. They were in the rays of a street-lamp, and could see each other's faces. 'And he believes that? 'I'm afraid so. 'And you believe believed it? 'Not for a moment. 'I shall write a note to Mr Yule.
Father Cuthbert, seated in a corner near the Yule log, with his brother-in-law and the Etheling, forgot all his apprehensions, and shared in the universal joy around him; if his thoughts were sometimes with those who had once made Christmas bright to him if he thought of the bright-haired Bertric, who had been the soul of last Yuletide festivity at Aescendune, or of the desolated home there, he dismissed the subject from his mind at once, and suffered no hint to drop which could dim the mirth of his fellow guests.
'Mother, she said, with stern gentleness, 'this house can no longer be a home for me. I shall go away to-morrow, and live in lodgings until the time of my marriage. Mrs Yule uttered a cry of pain, and started up. 'Oh, don't do that, Marian! What has he said to you? Come and talk to me, darling tell me what he's said don't look like that!
Don't disturb me any longer. She did not venture to linger. The breakfast next morning seemed likely to pass without any interchange of words. But when Yule was pushing back his chair, Marian who looked pale and ill addressed a question to him about the work she would ordinarily have pursued to-day at the Reading-room.
The second day of Yule men went afresh to try to bring Glam to church; drag horses were put to him, but could move him nowhere where they had to go on even ground and not down hill; then folk had to go away therefrom leaving things done so far. The third day the priest fared with them, and they sought all day, but found not Glam.
The bringing in of the Yule-log was a Norse custom observed in honour of Thor, from whose name we derive our word Thursday or Thor's-day. The mighty log was drawn into the baronial hall with great pomp, while the bards sang their songs of praise and chanted "Welcome Yule."
And with bare livelihood Amy would not, could not, be content. If he were to die a natural death it would be well for all. His wife and the child would be looked after; they could live with Mrs Edmund Yule, and certainly it would not be long before Amy married again, this time a man of whose competency to maintain her there would be no doubt. His own behaviour had been cowardly selfishness.
In the same way I knew Miss Yule's father when I happened to pass him in the road yesterday. The three girls began to converse together, perforce of trivialities. Marian Yule spoke in rather slow tones, thoughtfully, gently; she had linked her fingers, and laid her hands, palms downwards, upon her lap a nervous action.
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