So we must wake the white-ash breeze , A long pull for Stavanger ! OLD MEN AT PEVENSEY ` It has naught to do with apes or Devils , ` Sir Richard went on , in an undertone . ` It concerns De Aquila , than whom there was never bolder nor craftier , nor more hardy knight born . And remember he was an old , old man at that time . ' ` When ? ' said Dan . ` When we came back from sailing with Witta . ' ` What did you do with your gold ? ' said Dan . ` Have patience . Link by link is chain-mail made . I will tell all in its place . We bore the gold to Pevensey on horseback -- three loads of it -- and then up to the north chamber , above the Great Hall of Pevensey Castle , where De Aquila lay in winter . He sat on his bed like a little white falcon , turning his head swiftly from one to the other as we told our tale . Jehan the Crab , an old sour man-at-arms , guarded the stairway , but De Aquila bade him wait at the stair-foot , and let down both leather curtains over the door . It was Jehan whom De Aquila had sent to us with the horses , and only Jehan had loaded the gold . When our story was told , De Aquila gave us the news of England , for we were as men waked from a year-long sleep . The Red King was dead -- slain -LRB- ye remember ? -RRB- the day we set sail -- and Henry , his younger brother , had made himself King of England over the head of Robert of Normandy . This was the very thing that the Red King had done to Robert when our Great William died .
Then Robert of Normandy , mad , as De Aquila said , at twice missing of this kingdom , had sent an army against XXXXX , which army had been well beaten back to their ships at Portsmouth .
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