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But the gaily veiled malice of the one had annoyed her, and the cold assumption of the other had irritated her, and she had, scarcely knowing why, turned her shoulder to both of these gentlemen with an indefinite idea of escaping a pressure, amounting almost to critical importunity. "I'm probably a poor shot?" she said, looking smilingly, straight into Siward's eyes. "But if you'll take me "
Boy Waltheof will set up his claim next, I presume, as Siward's son; and then Gospatrick, as Ethelred Evil-Counsel's great-grandson; and so forth, and so forth, till they all eat each other up, and the tanner's grandson eats the last. What care I? Tell me about the battle, my lady, if you know aught. That is more to my way than their statecraft."
And that ended the first interview between Plank and Siward in the first days of the latter's decline. The months that passed during Siward's absence from the city began to prove rather eventful for Plank.
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