Now since those days you have grown rich with your fishing fleets, your wool mart, and your ferry dues at Walberswick and Southwold.

We, too, are rich in manors and land, counting our acres by the thousand, but yet poor, lacking your gold, though yonder manor"-- and she pointed to some towers which rose far away above the trees upon the high land--"has many mouths to feed.

Also the sea has robbed us at Dunwich, where I was born, taking our great house and sundry streets that paid us rent, and your market of Southwold has starved out ours at Blythburgh." "Well, what has all this to do with you and me, Eve ?" "Much, Hugh, as you should know who have been bred to trade," and she glanced at his merchant's dress.

"Between de Cressi and Clavering there has been rivalry and feud for three long generations.

When we were children it abated for a while, since your father lent money to mine, and that is why they suffered us to grow up side by side.