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And in the case of Edred, legs cased in armor that looked like cricket pads, ending in jointed foot-coverings that looked like chrysalises. "Now the poetry." "I can't," said Elfrida, bursting into tears again; "I can't! So there. I've been trying all the time we've been dressing, and I can only think of
We are on firmer ground when we come to the time of the tenth-century house of Benedictine nuns dispersed by Henry II for "that they did by their scandalous and irreligious behaviour bring ill fame to Holy Church." It had been founded by a royal criminal, that stony-hearted Elfrida of Corfe, who murdered her stepson while he was a guest at her door.
An' the old chap.... Yes and there's one or two other things yes I reckon us'll stop on 'ere a bit." And Dickie was very glad. For now he was near Arden Castle, and could see it any time that he chose to walk a couple of hundred yards and look down. And presently he would see Edred and Elfrida. Would they know him? That was the question.
'Captain Knox thinks her the best of the bunch, said she in confidence to Martha, when on the subject of 'our young ladies, 'and so do I Miss Agatha is rather commonplace, to my mind, though she is a good mistress, and Miss Gwendoline is always catching up one and taking one's breath away. Miss Elfrida is very pleasant, but she's always the same.
His court was magnificent, and much frequented by strangers. His revenues were in excellent order, and no prince of his time supported the royal character with more dignity. Edgar had two wives, Elfleda and Elfrida. By the first he had a son called Edward; the second bore him one called Ethelred.
Even my father will not help to keep you here." "But, Elfrida it was your own saying " the poor lover went no further, for he was beyond his depth altogether. It would seem that this was not the way in which she had spoken to him when they were alone. So I went to help him.
"I invited them in your name, mother, but Linda and Aunt Ella were anxious to get back to their yacht at Nantucket. They will sail from there to New York and take the steamer home next week." "Is the Countess of Sussex' sister-in-law, the Lady Elfrida, married yet?" asked Florence. "I understand she is engaged," Quincy replied. Maude was incorrigible.
Marks of cannon-balls were indented on the stonework of the battered gateway, which still remained a gateway probably the very same under which Queen Elfrida, "fair and false," had offered to her son the stirrup-cup.
"Have you have you" he stammered with a faint smile, "seen my sister?" "Not yet," said Lady Elfrida. "I believe she is not well and is confined to her room; you will introduce me, won't you?" she added eagerly.
From the ealdorman's door Elfrida watched us go very bravely, and the glimmer of her white dress was the lodestar that kept the eyes of her lover turned backward while it might be seen. It vanished suddenly, and he heaved a deep sigh, and I knew that she had been fain to watch no longer lest her tears should be seen.
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