Excerpt: ...victory on every tower, on every field, towards which they had rushed on the winds. Retiring, then, to the central mound, the chiefs of the insurgent force held their brief council. The two young Earls, whatever their ancestral renown, being yet new themselves to fame and to power, were submissive to the Anglo-Dane chiefs, by whom Morcar had been elected. And these, on recognising the standard of Harold, were unanimous in advice to send a peaceful deputation, setting forth their wrongs under Tostig, and the ...
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Excerpt: ...victory on every tower, on every field, towards which they had rushed on the winds. Retiring, then, to the central mound, the chiefs of the insurgent force held their brief council. The two young Earls, whatever their ancestral renown, being yet new themselves to fame and to power, were submissive to the Anglo-Dane chiefs, by whom Morcar had been elected. And these, on recognising the standard of Harold, were unanimous in advice to send a peaceful deputation, setting forth their wrongs under Tostig, and the justice of their cause. "For the Earl," said Gamel Beorn (the head and front of that revolution, ) is a just man, and one who would shed his own blood rather than that of any other freeborn dweller in England; and he will do us right." "What, against his own brother?" cried Edwin. "Against his own brother, if we convince but his reason," returned the Anglo-Dane. And the other chiefs nodded assent. Caradoc's fierce eyes flashed fire; but he played with his torque, and spoke not. Meanwhile, the vanguard of the King's force had defiled under the very walls of Northampton, between the town and the insurgents; and some of the light-armed scouts who went forth from Morcar's camp to gaze on the procession, with that singular fearlessness which characterised, at that period, the rival parties in civil war, returned to say that they had seen Harold himself in the foremost line, and that he was not in mail. This circumstance the insurgent thegns received as a good omen; and, having already agreed on the deputation, about a score of the principal thegns of the north went sedately towards the hostile lines. By the side of Harold, -armed in mail, with his face concealed by the strange Sicilian nose-piece used then by most of the Northern nations, -had ridden Tostig, who had joined the Earl on his march, with a scanty band of some fifty or sixty of his Danish house-carles. All the men throughout broad England that he could command or bribe to his cause, were...
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Good; No jacket. 1912 J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. -E. P. Dutton & Co. Reprint of 1906 edition. NOT ex-library. Everyman's Library, no. 15, Fiction. Small hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and floral decorations. Blind-stamped J. M. Dent logo on front cover. Green and white Reginald L. Knowles-designed illustrated endpapers and ornate black & white title page. Binding overall intact but getting loose in a few places in the text, with webbing just peeking at page group divisions. Small crack starting at top of last page. Spine ends lightly bumped. Spine slightly faded. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Name in ink on half-title page. Page edges lightly foxed. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 453 pages. No dust jacket. Printed at the Temple Press, Letchworth. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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