"I can tell you how Carl manages the sword; but of the way he wields the sceptre, I cannot.

Mayhap I shall mislead you." "No," he answered; "I would hear how his way seems to a plain Englishman as myself.

My chancellor shall talk with the paladin." Then at last he started up, and cried: "Why, I have forgotten somewhat.

I promised to take you to my mother's bower to be thanked by the Lady Hilda.

Come with me at once." "There is Werbode," I said.
"Let him wait," said Ethelbert.