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So saying, he left the room, and Wolnoth rushed to his brother's arms, while Haco, more timidly, drew near and touched the Earl's robe.
And up the stairs of the turret came the soft steps of Haco, and stealing near to the King, he said: "Arm in haste, for the bodes have come breathless to tell thee that Tostig, thy brother, with pirate and war-ship, is wasting thy shores and slaughtering thy people!"
Stephen says he never did sleep in a four-poster, and often wondered what it would be like no more did I, so I would like to take him by surprise, you see. Then I want to git " "Well?" said Haco, when she paused. "I'm awful keen to git a carpit, but I doubt I'm thinkin' o' too many things. D'ye think the first year's what d'ye call it?" "Interest," said Haco.
Her high spirit had accepted, not resented, defeat. As her eye fell on her two visitors there was no gleam of defiance, no mark of anger, or even surprise; but, when Haco stood fully revealed before her, a flash of triumph and pleasure shot into it, kindling every feature with its glow. "You here, Haco!" she cried, "and with her! The Gods have relented.
Swinging aloft with both hands his axe, the spear of Grantmesnil is shivered in twain by the King's stroke. Cloven to the skull rolls the steed of Bruse. Knight and steed roll on the bloody sward. But a blow from the sword of De Lacy has broken down the guardian shield of Haco. The son of Sweyn is stricken to his knee.
His fate seems taken out of his own control: greatness seems thrust upon him. He has made himself, as it were, a want to the nation, a thing necessary to it; he has identified himself with his age, and in the wreath or the crown on his brow, the age itself seems to put forth its flower. "Knowest thou the cause, Haco?"
But there was one with whom Haco was more often than with all others one whom the presence of Harold had allured to that anxious scene of intrigue, and whose heart leapt high at the hopes whispered from the smileless lips of Haco. It was the second day after that which assured him the allegiance of the thegns, that a message was brought to Harold from the Lady Aldyth.
"I'm not quite sure o' Mister Kenneth," said he, "it's likely that he'll do the right thing by her, but `like father, like son' is an old proverb. He may be a chip o' the old block." "That he is not," interrupted Haco warmly. "I know the lad well. He takes after his poor mother, and I'm sartin sure ye may trust him."
They were selected from his own family; and the choice fell on Wolnoth, his son, and Haco, the son of Sweyn.
But, surely, now that William hath permitted this Norman to bring over the letter, he will assent to what it hath become a wrong and an insult to refuse; and Haco will return to his father's land, and Wolnoth to his mother's arms."
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