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You must not cry now, Mildred; indeed you must not. People must do what they can at such a time as this. Come, help me to shout. Shriek as loud and as long as ever you can." "I wish I might say my prayers," said Mildred, presently. "Do, dear. Kneel down here; nobody sees us. Let us ask God to save father, and us too, and George and Ailwin, if it pleases Him; and Roger."
Ailwin added that she was very sorry, she could not tell how she came to be so forgetful; but she had never thought of not being able to milk the cow in the afternoon, and had drunk up all that George left of the milk; her regular dinner having been drowned in the kitchen. Neither had she remembered to bring anything eatable up-stairs with her when the flood drove her from the lower rooms.
So we fled there, and the journey was overmuch for her, and there she died after two days. That was a sore grief to me, but I will not speak of grief now. Then Ailwin told the abbess to keep me with her until all things were safe, when he would return for me.
"Is that for me?" asked Oliver, rubbing his eyes. "Yes, indeed, for who but you?" said Ailwin, whose smiling face popped up from the stairs. "Who deserves it, if you do not, I should like to know? It is not so good as I could have wished, though, Oliver. I could not broil it, for want of butter and everything; and we have no salt, you know. But, come! Eat it, such as it is. Come, begin!"
"Tell me what was the trouble, then." "I thought there were things said, and you called me by her name that the wedding Relf spoke of was yours and Sexberga's. That was all." "Surely Relf knew not who you were?" "No. He did not till Ailwin came to Penhurst." "Then," said I, "it passes me to know how he found out what the trouble was." "Because he has a daughter of his own," she laughed.
Is it possible that you are all alive, after such a calamity as this?" "George is dead, sir. We buried him yesterday. Ailwin is here, with Mildred and me; and Roger Redfurn." One of the men observed that he had hoped, as one good that would come of the flood, that the Levels were rid of the Redfurns. "Do not say that," said Oliver.
The minds of Ailwin and Mildred were full of the events of the night; and they forgot that it was Roger they were speaking to when they told what their terrors had been. Ailwin had started up in the middle of the night, and run to the door; and, on opening it, had seen the stars shining bright down into the house. The roof of the other side of the house was clean gone.
What might not Eadmund the Saint, who slew Swein to save his shrine from heathen hands, be able to do for me? I would tell Ailwin presently, and ask him what vow I should make in return for this remembrance. But Ailwin came not, and I grew impatient, and went to the cottage where he dwelt as the leech, at the head of the little street towards our hall. Maybe he would be there.
Before the end of the day Mrs Linacre had been seen to look like herself once more; and Ailwin had told to the wondering neighbours the tale of the few days, which seemed now like years to look back upon. She told more than even Oliver had observed of the miserable state of their place of refuge, which would soon have been a place of death.
"Truly she has not," Ailwin laughed; "how should she?" "I know not where she has been, father," I said with a lighter heart, although but an hour ago I thought that I should have been glad to hear that it was so. "Ah I forgot," Ailwin said in some little confusion as I thought, and he was silent. But now I would say more. "Well, then, father, both of us are heart whole, as it seems.
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