The hour for leaving their favourite game had now arrived: and with repeated hopes of renewing it the next evening, they bade good-bye to their kind mother.
1. Coronation of William I. A.D. 1066.
2. Matilda of Flanders working her husband's conquests.
3. William II. besieging Prince Henry at St. Michel. A.D. 1088.
4. Henry I. sending his cloak to his brother Robert. A.D. 1125.
5. The loss of the "White Ship." A.D. 1120.
6. The escape of the Empress Maude from Oxford. A.D. 1141.
CHAPTER IV.
"The subject of my picture to-night," said Mrs. Macdonald, when the party was again assembled round a cheerful fire, "is that of a young man, apparently about twenty-one years of age; his features are handsome, particularly his eyes; his form is graceful, about the middle height; he has a manly, military bearing; in his helmet he wears a piece of a small-leaved plant, and with one hand he is encouraging some workmen, who are busily engaged in pulling down a castellated building. All seem to be working cheerfully under him; and he is so gentle in appearance, that the little children are not afraid to come near him, and look at the warlike ornaments of his dress. In the distance some soldiers, evidently of a different country to the rest of the people, are embarking in boats, with all their baggage."