` And that was here at home ? ' said Una . ` Yes , here . See ! From the Upper Ford , Weland 's Ford , to the Lower Ford , by the Belle Allée , west and east it ran half a league . From the Beacon of Brunanburgh behind us here , south and north it ran a full league -- and all the woods were full of broken men from Santlache , Saxon thieves , Norman plunderers , robbers , and deer-stealers . A hornets ' nest indeed ! ` When De Aquila had gone , Hugh would have thanked me for saving their lives ; but the Lady Ælueva said that I had done it only for the sake of receiving the Manor . ' `` How could I know that De Aquila would give it me ? '' I said . `` If I had told him I had spent my night in your halter he would have burned the place twice over by now . '' ' `` If any man had put my neck in a rope , '' she said , `` I would have seen his house burned thrice over before I would have made terms . '' ' `` But it was a woman , '' I said ; and I laughed , and she wept and said that I mocked her in her captivity . ' `` Lady , '' said I , `` there is no captive in this valley except one , and he is not a Saxon . '' ` At this she cried that I was a Norman thief , who came with false , sweet words , having intended from the first to turn her out in the fields to beg her bread . Into the fields ! She had never seen the face of war ! ' I was angry , and answered , `` This much at least I can disprove , for I swear '' -- and on my sword-hilt I swore it in that place -- `` I swear I will never set foot in the Great Hall till the Lady Ælueva herself shall summon me there . '' ` She went away , saying nothing , and I walked out , and Hugh limped after me , whistling dolorously -LRB- that is a custom of the English -RRB- , and we came upon the three Saxons that had bound me . They were now bound by my men-at-arms , and behind them stood some fifty stark and sullen churls of the House and the Manor , waiting to see what should fall .
We heard De XXXXX 's trumpets blow thin through the woods Kentward . '
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