Английские легенды / English Legends - стр. 24

She smiled sadly on the young Saxon: “I knew your face again in spite of the disguise, but you come too late. Give my farewell to Sigtryg, and say that my father’s will, not mine, makes me forget my promise.”

“Have you not been told, lady, that he is here?” asked Hereward.

“Here?” the princess cried. “I have not heard. He loves me still and has not abandoned me?”

“No, lady, he is too true a lover for falsehood. He sent forty Danes yesterday to demand you of your father.”

“And I did not know of it,” said the princess softly; “yet I had heard that Haco had taken some prisoners, whom he wants to blind.”

“Those are our messengers, and your future subjects,” said Hereward. “Help me to save them and you. Do you know Haco’s plans?”

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