"We were never in bondage to any man."
"It is a lie—all Englishmen are in serfdom."
"Time will deliver them."
"Do you dare to bandy words with me; if so, a short shrift and a long halter will suffice: you are within my jurisdiction, and your lives are as much in my power as those of my hounds."
This was not said of hot temper, but bred of that cool contempt which the foreign lords felt for the conquered race with which, nevertheless, they were destined to amalgamate.
"Your names?"
"Sexwulf, son of Thurkill, formerly thane of Kingestun."
"Whose father fell in the fight at Senlac (Hastings), by the side of the perjured Harold; and is this thy son? brought up doubtless to be a rebel like thyself."
"He is my grandson."
"And how hast thou lived here, so long unknown, in my woods?"