This is a difficult place for you." "I know Hubba," he said, "and if I abide here I may be of use.

I need not tell you that you are fighting the best warrior of our time, and that with too small a force." "Well," I said, "you and I can speak plainly, neither of us being Saxons.

We shall be beaten by numbers, and you mean that you will be able to save these ladies by staying ?" "Ay," he said.

"And if by any chance Alfred wins, I may be able to ask for mercy for the conquered." Then came in Thora, and her face was troubled.

She had been trying to make Etheldreda go to the hill fort, where all the women and children of the countryside had been sent.
"It is of no use," she said; "they will bide here." "Well," said Osmund, "then we will stay also.