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For an instant she vainly tried to picture Paolo Tosti doing the honors to such a guest but that picture was unpaintable. This Barry Elder was chivalry itself; he was kindness and comfort and he was a strange, stirring excitement that flung a glamour over the disaster of the hour. It was like a little hush before the final storm, a dim dream before the nightmare enfolded her again.
The Norseman promptly accepted the offer, and, taking with him his family and an army of warriors, sailed for the Shetlands, where Tosti joined him. The united forces then came down the east coast of Britain until they reached Scardaburgum, where they landed and prepared to fight the inhabitants.
Other windows opened upon the veranda in the front of the Lodge from which they had just come. An arch of doorway gave upon the wide hall where a guest was shuffling the mail. "Alone!" ejaculated Johnny. "My mother allows this when my sister Lucia and her fiancé, Paolo Tosti, are together," said Maria Angelina. "I am in the next room with a book. And that is very advanced.
Of all this Hereward was well informed; for Tosti came back again to St. Omer, and talked big. But Hereward and he had no dealings with each other. But at last, when Tosti tried to entice some of Hereward's men to sail with him, Hereward sent him word that if he met him, he would kill him in the streets.
Cedric went on with his story without noticing this interjectional observation of his friend. "The envoy of Tosti," he said, "moved up the hall, undismayed by the frowning countenances of all around him, until he made his obeisance before the throne of King Harold. "'What terms, he said, 'Lord King, hath thy brother Tosti to hope, if he should lay down his arms, and crave peace at thy hands?
How the fleet had never come, and they had starved for many days; and how she had bribed a passing merchantman to take her and her wretched train to the land of Baldwin the Debonnaire, who might have pity on her for the sake of his daughter Judith, and Tosti her husband who died in his sins.
Tosti, Count of Northumberland, who, as everyone knows, was brother of the Harold who fought at Senlac Hill, had brought about an insurrection of the Northumbrians, and having been dispossessed by his brother, he revenged himself by inviting the help of Haralld Hadrada, King of Norway.
Then Dolfin and young Gospatrick took to the sea, and away to Scotland: and so Tosti rid himself of all the good blood in the North, except young Waltheof Siwardsson, whose turn, I fear, will come next." "How comes he here, then?" "The Northern men rose at that, killed his servant at York, took all his treasures, and marched down to Northampton, plundering and burning.
I have shorn many a crown, but I have kept my own hair as yet, you see." "I do see," said she, playing with his locks. "But, but he wants you. He has sent for Angevins, Poitevins, Bretons, Flemings, promising lands, rank, money, what not. Tosti is recruiting for him here in Flanders now. He will soon be off to the Orkneys, I suspect, or to Sweyn in Denmark, after Vikings." "Here?
"How camest thou, then, hither?" "Styrkar the marshal escaped in the night, and I with him, and a few more. And Styrkar bade me bring the news to Flanders, to the Countess, while he took it to Olaf Haroldsson, who lay off in the ships." "And thou shalt take it. Martin! get this man a horse. A horse, ye villains, and a good one, on your lives!" "And Tosti is dead?" "Dead like a hero.
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