As beautiful a summer’s morning as ever chased the stars from heaven, was dawning over that wide tract1 of waste and woodland, which still, though many a century has now mossed over the ancestral oaks which then were in their lusty prime, retains the name by which it was at that day styled appropriately—the “New Forest.” Few years had then elapsed since the first Norman lord of England had quenched2 the fires that burned in thirty hamlets; had desecrated3 God’s own altars, making the roofless aisles4 of many a parish church the haunt of the grim wolf or antlered red-deer; turning fair fields and cultured vales to barren and desolate6 wastes—to gratify his furious passion for that sport which has so justly been entitled the mimicry7 of warfare8. Few years had then elapsed, yet not a symptom of their old fertility could now be traced in the wild plains waving with fern, and overrun with copsewood, broom, and brambles; unless it might be found in the profuse9 luxuriance with which this thriftless crop had overspread the champaign once smiling like a goodly garden with every meet production for the sustenance10 of man.
46 It was, as has been said, as beautiful a summer’s morning as ever eye of man beheld11. The sun, which had just raised the verge12 of his great orb13 above the low horizon, was checkering the mossy greensward with long, fantastic lines of light and shadow, and tinging14 the gnarled limbs of the huge oaks with ruddy gold; the dew, which lay abundantly on every blade of grass and every bending wild-flower, had not yet felt his power, nor raised a single mist-wreath to veil the brightness of the firmament16; nor was the landscape, that lay there steeped in the lustre17 of the glowing skies, less lovely than the dawn that waked above it: long sylvan18 avenues sweeping19 for miles through every variation of the wildest forest-scenery—here traversing in easy curves wide undulations clothed with the purple heather; here sinking downward to the brink20 of sheets of limpid21 water; now running straight through lines of mighty22 trees, and now completely overbowered as they dived through brakes and dingles, where the birch and holly23 grew so thickly mingled24 with the prickly furze and creeping eglantine as to make twilight25 of the hottest noontide. Such were the leading features of the country which had most deeply felt, and has borne down to later days most evident memorials of, the Norman’s tyranny.
Deeply embosomed in these delicious solitudes—surrounded by its flanking walls, and moat brimmed from a neighboring streamlet, with barbican and ballium, and all the elaborate defences that marked the architecture of the conquering race—stood Malwood keep, the favorite residence of Rufus, no less than it had been of his more famous sire. Here, early as was the hour, all was already full of life, full of the joyous28 and inspiriting confusion that still characterizes, though in a less degree than in those days of feudal29 pomp, the preparations for the chase. Tall yeomen hurried to and fro—some leading powerful and blooded chargers, which reared, and pawed the earth, and neighed till every turret30 echoed to the din15; some47 struggling to restrain the mighty bloodhounds which bayed and strove indignantly against the leash31; while others, lying in scattered32 groups upon the esplanade of level turf, furbished their cloth-yard shafts33, or strung the six-foot bows, which, for the first time, had drawn35 blood in England upon the fatal field of Hastings.
It might be seen, upon the instant, it was no private retinue36 that mustered37 to the “mystery of forests,” as in the quaint38 phrase of the day the noble sport was designated. A hundred horses, at the least, of the most costly39 and admired breeds, were there paraded: the huge, coal-black destrier of Flanders, limbed like an elephant, but with a coat that might have shamed the richest velvet40 by its sleekness41; the light and graceful42 Andalusian, with here and there a Spaniard, springy, and fleet, and fearless—while dogs, in numbers infinitely43 greater, and of races yet more various, made up the moving picture: bloodhounds to track the wounded quarry44 by their unerring scent45; slowhounds to force him from his lair46; gazehounds and lymmers to outstrip47 him on the level plain; mastiffs to bay the boar, “crook-kneed and dew-lapped like Thessalian bulls;” with terriers to unkennel beasts of earth, and spaniels to rouse the fowls48 of air. Nor were these all, for birds themselves were there, trained to make war on their own race: the long-winged hawks49 of Norway, with lanners from the isle5 of Man; merlins, and jerfalcons, and gosshawks. No tongue could tell the beauty of the creatures thus assembled: some scarcely half-reclaimed, and showing their wild nature at every glance of their quick, flashing eyes; some docile50 and affectionate, and in all things dependent upon man, to whom, despite caprice, and cruelty, and coldness, they are more faithful in his need than he, proud though he be, dare boast himself toward his fellow. No fancy could imagine the superb and lavish52 gorgeousness of their equipment.
48 A long, keen bugle53-blast rang from the keep, and in an instant a hundred bows were strung, a hundred ready feet were in the stirrup. Again if rang, longer and keener than before, and every forester was in his saddle; while from the low-browed arch, bending their stately heads quite to their saddle-bows, over the echoing drawbridge a dozen knights55 rode forth56, the followers57 and comrades of their king.
Scarcely above the middle size, but moulded in most exquisite58 proportion, thin-flanked, deep-chested, muscular, and lithe59, and agile60, there was not one of all his train, noble, or squire61, or yeoman, who could display a form so fitted for the union of activity with strength, of beauty with endurance, as could the second William. His hair, from which he had derived62 his famous soubriquet, was not of that marked and uncomely hue63 which we should now term red, but rather of a bright and yellowish brown, curled closely to a classical and bust-like head; his eye was quick and piercing; his features, severally, were well formed and handsome; yet had the eye a wavering, and restless, and at times even downcast expression; and the whole aspect of the face told many a tale of pride, and jealousy64, and passion—suspicion that might be roused to cruelty, and wilfulness65 that surely would be lashed67 by any opposition68 to violent and reckless fury. But now the furrows69 on the brow were all relaxed, the harsh lines of the mouth smoothed into temporary blandness70. “Forward, messires!” he cried, in Norman-French; “the morning finds us sluggards. What, ho! Sir Walter Tyrrel, shall we two company to-day, and gage71 our luck against these gay gallants?”
“Right jovially73, my liege,” returned the knight54 whom he addressed. A tall, dark-featured soldier rode beside his bridle74-rein75, bearing a bow which not an archer76 in the train could bend. “Right jovially will we—an’ they dare cope with us! What sayest thou, De Beauchamp—darest thou wager77 thy black boar-hound against a cast of merlins—thyself and Vermandois49 against his grace and me?”
“Nay, thou shouldst gage him odds78, my Walter,” Rufus interposed; “thy shaft34 flies ever truest, nor yield I to any bow save thine!”
“To his, my liege?” cried Beauchamp, “thou yield to his! Never drew Walter Tyrrel so true a string as thou; he lacks the sleight79, I trow, so ekes80 it out with strength! Tyrrel must hold him pleased if he rate second i’ the field.”
“How now, Sir Walter?” shouted the king; “hearest thou this bold De Beauchamp, and wilt81 thou yield the bucklers?—not thou, I warrant me, though it be to thy king!”
“So please your highness,” Tyrrel answered; “’tis but a sleight to ’scape our wager—’scaping the shame beside of yielding! He deems us over-strong for him, and so would part us!”
“Nay, by my halydom,” Rufus replied with a gay smile, “but we will have it so. We two will ride in company, each shooting his own shaft for his own hand. I dare uphold my arrow for twenty marks of gold, and my white Alan, against thy Barbary bay. Darest thou, Sir Walter?”
“I know not that—I dare not!” answered Tyrrel; “but your grace wagers83 high, nor will I lightly lose Bay Barbary: if so our wager stand, I shoot no roving shaft.”
“Shoot as thou wilt, so stands it!”
“Amen!” cried Tyrrel, “and I doubt not to hear your grace confess Tyrrel hath struck the lordlier quarry.”
“Away, then, all! away!” and, setting spurs to his curveting horse, the monarch84 led the way at a hard gallop85, followed by all his train—a long and bright procession, their gay plumes86 and many-colored garments offering a lively contrast to the deep, leafy verdure of July, and their clear weapons glancing lifelike to the sunshine.
50 They had careered along, with merriment and music, perhaps three miles into the forest, when the deep baying of a hound was heard, at some short distance to the right, from a thick verge of coppice. Instantly the king curbed87 in his fiery88 horse, and raised his hand on high, waving a silent halt. “Ha! have we outlaws89 here?” he whispered close in the ear of Tyrrel. “’Fore God, but they shall rue51 it!”
Scarcely had he spoken, when a buck82 burst from a thicket91, and, ere it made three bounds, leaped high into the air and fell, its heart pierced through and through by the unerring shaft of an outlying ranger92, who the next instant stepped out of his covert93, and, catching94 sight of the gay cavalcade95 confronting him—the sounds of whose approach he must have overlooked entirely96 in the excitement of his sport—turned hastily as if to fly. But it was all too late: a dozen of the king’s retainers had dashed their rowels into their horses’ flanks the instant he appeared, and scarcely had he discovered their advance before he was their prisoner.
“A Saxon, by my soul,” cried Rufus, with a savage97 scowl98, “taken red-hand, and in the fact! Out with thy wood-knife, Damian! By the most holy Virgin99, we will first mar27 his archery, and then present him with such a taste of venison as shall, I warrant me, appease100 his hankering for one while. Off with his thumb and finger! off with them speedily, I say, an’ thou wouldst ’scape his doom101! Ha! grinnest thou, villain102?” he continued, as a contortion103 writhed104 the bold visage of his victim, who, certain of his fate, and hopeless of resistance or of rescue, yielded with stubborn resolution to his torturers—“an’ this doth make thee smile, thou shalt laugh outright105 shortly! Hence with him, now, Damian and Hugonet; and thou, Raoul, away with thee—set toils106 enow, uncouple half a score of brachs and slowhounds, and see thou take me a right stag of ten ere vespers!—Barebacked shalt thou ride on him to the forest, thou unhanged Saxon thief, and see how his horned51 kinsmen108 will entreat109 thee! See that the dog escape ye not, or ye shall swing for it. Bind110 him, and drag him hence to the old church of Lyme; hold him there, on your lives, till sunset! And ye—lead thither111 his wild charger: we will sup there upon the greensward, as we return to Malwood, and thou shalt make us merry with thy untutored horsemanship. Now for our wager, Walter! Forward—hurrah!” and on again they dashed, until they reached the choicest hunting-ground of all that spacious113 woodland—the desolate and desert spot where once had stood the fairest village of the land.
Unroofed and doorless, in different stages of decay, a score or two of cottages, once hospitable114, happy homes of a free peasantry, stood here and there amid the brushwood which had encroached upon the precincts; while in the midst the desecrated church of Lyme reared its gray tower, now overgrown with ivy115, and crumbling116 in silent ruin. Upon the cross which crowned the lowly tower, there sat, as they approached, a solitary118 raven119—nor, though the whoop120 and horn rang close below his perch121, did he show any sign of wildness or of fear; but, rising slowly on his wing, flapped round and round in two or three slow circles, and then with a hoarse122 croak123 resumed his station. The raven was a favorite bird with the old hunters; and when the deer was slain124 he had his portion, thence named “the raven’s bone.” Indeed, so usual was the practice, that this bird, the wildest by its nature of all the things that fly, would rarely shun125 a company which its sagacity descried126 to be pursuers of the sylvan game.
“What! sittest thou there, old black-frock, in our presence?” shouted the king, bending his bow; “but we will teach thee manners!” Still, the bird moved not, but again sent forth his ominous127 and sullen128 croak above the jocund129 throng130. The bow was raised—the cord was drawn back to the monarch’s ear: it twanged, and the next moment the hermit-bird came fluttering52 down, transfixed by the long shaft, with painful and discordant131 cries, and fell close at the feet of Rufus’s charger.
There was a murmur132 in the crowd; and one, a page who waited on the king, whispered with a pale face and agitated133 voice into his fellow’s ear: “I have heard say—
‘Whose shaft ’gainst raven’s life is set, Shaft’s feather his heart-blood shall wet!’”
The red king caught the whisper, and turning with an inflamed134 countenance135 and flashing eye on the unwitting wakener of his wrath—“Dastard and fool!” he shouted; and, clinching136 his gloved hand, he dealt the boy so fierce a blow upon the chest, that he fell to the earth like a lifeless body, plunging137 so heavily upon the sod head-foremost, that the blood gushed138 from nose, ears, mouth, and he lay senseless and inanimate as the surrounding clay. With a low, sneering139 laugh, the tyrant140 once more spurred his charger forward, amid the smothered141 execrations of his Norman followers, boiling with indignation for that one of their noble and victorious142 race should have endured the foul143 wrong of a blow, though it were dealt him by a monarch’s hand. And there were scowling144 brows, and teeth set hard, among the very noblest of his train; and, as the glittering band swept on, the father of the injured boy—a dark-browed, aged145 veteran, who had couched lance at Hastings to win the throne of earth’s most lovely island for that base tyrant’s sire—reined in his horse, and, leaping to the earth, upraised the body from the gory146 turf, and wiped away the crimson147 stream from the pale features, and dashed pure water, brought from a neighboring brooklet148 in a comrade’s bacinet, upon the fair young brow—but it was all in vain! The dying child rolled upward his faint eyes; they rested on the anxious lineaments of that war-beaten sire, who, stern and fiery to all else, had ever to that motherless boy been soft and tender as a woman. “Father,” he gasped149, while a brief, painful smile illuminated150 with a transient gleam53 his ashy lips—“mercy, kind mother Mary! Father—father”—the words died in the utterance151; the dim eyes wavered—closed; the head fell back upon the stalwart arm that had supported it, and, with one long and quivering convulsion, the innocent soul departed!
Some three or four—inferior barons153 of the train, yet each a gentleman of lineage and prowess in the field, each one in his own estimate a prince’s peer—had paused around the desolate father and his murdered child; and now, as the old man gazed hopelessly upon the features of his first-born and his only, the sympathy which had moistened their hard eyes and relaxed their iron features was swallowed up in a fierce glare of indignation, irradiating their scarred and war-seamed visages with that sublime154 expression, from which, when glowing on the face of a resolute155 and fearless man, the wildest savage of the forest will shrink in mute dismay. The father, after a long and fearful struggle with his more tender feelings—wringing his hard hands till the blood-drops started redly from beneath every nail—lifted his face, more pale and ashy in its hues156 than that of the inanimate form which he had loved so tenderly; and as he lifted it he caught the fierce glow mantling157 on the front of each well-tried companion, and his own features lightened with the self-same blaze: his hand sank downward to the hilt of the long poniard at his girdle, and the fingers worked with a convulsive tremor158 as they griped the well-known pommel, and an exulting159 smile curled his mustached lip, prophetic of revenge. Once more he bowed above the dead; he laid his broad hand on the pulseless heart, and printed a long kiss on the forehead; then lifting, with as much tenderness as though they still had sense and feeling, the relics160 of the only thing he loved on earth, he bore them from the roadside into the shelter of a tangled161 coppice; unbuckled his long military mantle162, and spreading it above them, secured it at each corner by heavy stones, a temporary54 shelter from insult or intrusion. This done, in total silence he rejoined his friends, who had foreborne to offer aid where they perceived it would be held superfluous163. Without one word, he grasped the bridle of his charger, tightened164 his girths, and then, setting no foot to stirrup, vaulted165 almost without an effort into the steel-bound demipique. Raising his arm aloft, he pointed166 into the long aisles of the forest, wherein the followers of Rufus had long since disappeared.
“Our thoughts are one!” he hissed167, in accents scarcely articulate, between his grinded teeth; “what need of words? Are not we soldiers, gentlemen, and Normans, and shall not deeds speak for us?”
Truly he said, their thoughts were one!—for each had severally steeled his heart as by a common impulse: and now, without a word, or sign, or any interchange of sentiments, feeling that each understood the other, they wheeled their horses on the tyrant’s track, and at a hard trot168 rode away, resolved on instant vengeance169.
Meanwhile, the hunters had arrived at their appointed ground. The slowhounds were uncoupled and cast loose; varlets with hunting-poles, and mounted grooms170, pressed through the underwood; while, in each open glade171 and riding of the forest, yeomen were stationed with relays of tall and stately gazehounds, to slip upon the hart the instant he should break from the thick covert. The knights and nobles galloped172 off, each with his long-bow strung, and cloth-yard arrow notched173 and ready, to posts assigned to them—some singly, some in pairs; all was replete174 with animation175 and with fiery joy.
According to the monarch’s pleasure, Tyrrel rode at his bridle-hand, for that day’s space admitted as his comrade and his rival. Two splendid bloodhounds, coal-black, but tawny176 on the muzzle177 and the breast, so accurately178 trained that they required no leash to check their ardor179, ran at the red king’s heel;55 but neither page nor squire, such was his special mandate180, accompanied their master. And now the loud shouts of the foresters and the deep baying of the pack gave note that the chase was on foot; and by the varied181 cadences182 and different points whence pealed183 the soul-exciting clamors, Rufus, a skilful184 and sagacious sportsman, immediately perceived that two if not three of the noble animals they hunted must have been roused at once. For a few seconds he stood upright in his stirrups, his hand raised to his ear, lest the slight summer breeze should interrupt the welcome sounds.
“This way,” he said, in low and guarded tones, “this way they bend; and with the choicest buck—hark to old Hubert’s holloa! and there, there, Tyrrel, list to that burst—list to that long, sharp yell! Beshrew my soul, if that be not stanch185 Palamon—that hound is worth ten thousand. Ha! they are now at fault. Again! brave Palamon again! and now they turn; hark how the echoes roar! Ay, they are crossing now the Deer-leap dingle; and now, now, as their notes ring out distinct and tuneful, they gain the open moorland. Spur, Tyrrel, for your life! spur, spur! we see him not again till we reach Bolderwood”—and, with the word, he raised his bugle to his lips, and wound it lustily and well till every oak replied to the long flourish.
Away they flew, driving their foaming186 chargers, now through the tangled underwood with tightened reins187, now with free heads careering along the level glades188, now sweeping over the wide brooks189 that intersect the forest as though their steeds were winged, and now, at distant intervals190, pausing to catch the fitful music of the pack. After a furious chase of at least two hours, the sounds still swelling192 on their right, nearer and nearer as they rode the farther, the avenue through which they had been galloping193 for many minutes was intersected at right angles by one yet wider though neglected, and, as it would seem, disused,56 for many marshy194 pools might be seen glittering to the sun, which was now fast descending195 to the westward196, and many plants of ash and tufted hazels had sprung up, marring the smoothness of its surface. Here, by a simultaneous motion, and as it seemed obedient to a common thought, both riders halted.
“He must cross, Tyrrel, he must cross here,” cried the excited monarch; “ay, by the life of Him who made us—and that before we be ten minutes older. I will take stand even here, where I command both alleys197: ride thou some fifty yards or so, to the right; stand by yon rowan sapling. And mark me—see’st thou yon scathed199 but giant oak?—Now, if he pass on this side, mine is the first shot; if on the other, thine. I will not balk200 thy fortunes; meddle201 not thou with mine!”
They parted—the king sitting like a statue on his well-trained but fiery Andalusian, the rein thrown loosely on the horse’s neck, and the bow already half bent202 in the vigorous right hand; the baron152 riding, as he had been commanded, down the neglected avenue, till he had reached the designated tree, when he wheeled round his courser and remained likewise motionless, facing the king, at that brief interval191.
Nearer and nearer came the baying of the pack, while ever and anon a sharp and savage treble, mixed with the deeper notes, gave token to the skilful foresters that they were running with the game in view. Nearer it came, and nearer; and now it was so close, that not an echo could be traced amid the stormy music: but with the crash no human shout was blended, no bugle lent its thrilling voice to the blithe203 uproar204, no clang of hoofs205 announced the presence of pursuers. All, even the best and boldest riders, saving those two who waited there in calm, deliberate impatience206, had long been foiled by the quick turns and undiminished pace maintained by the stout207 quarry.
The crashing of the branches might now be heard distinctly, as they were separated by some body in swift motion; and next57 the laboring208 sobs209 of a beast overdone210 with toil107 and anguish211; the waving of the coppice followed in a long, sinuous212 line, resembling in some degree the wake of a fleet ship among the rolling billows. Midway it furrowed213 the dense214 thicket between the king and Tyrrel, but with an inclination215 toward the former. His quick eye noted216 his advantage: his bow rose slowly and with a steady motion to its level; it was drawn to its full extent—the forked steel head pressing against the polished yew217, the silken string stretched home to the right ear. The brambles were forced violently outward, and with a mighty but laborious218 effort the hunted stag dashed into the more open space. Scarcely had he cleared the thicket, before a sharp and ringing twang announced the shot of Rufus. So true had been his aim, that the barbed arrow grazed the withers220 of the game—a hart of grease, with ten tines on his noble antlers—leaving a gory line where it had razed219 the skin; and so strong was the arm that launched it, that the shaft, glancing downward, owing to the king’s elevation221 and the short distance of the mark at which he aimed, was buried nearly to the feathers in the soft, mossy greensward. The wounded stag bounded at least six feet into the air; and Tyrrel, deeming the work already done, lowered his weapon. But the king’s sight was truer. Raising his bridle-hand to screen his eyes from the rays, now nearly level, of the setting sun—“Ho!” he cried, “Tyrrel, shoot—in the fiend’s name shoot!”
Before the words had reached his ear, the baron saw his error; for, instantly recovering, the gallant72 deer dashed onward222, passing immediately beneath the oak-tree which Rufus had already mentioned. Raising his bow with a rapidity which seemed incredible, Tyrrel discharged his arrow. It struck, just at the correct elevation, against the gnarled trunk of the giant tree; but, swift as was its flight, the motion of the wounded deer was yet more rapid: he had already crossed the open58 glade, and was lost in the thicket opposite. Diverted from its course, but unabated in its force, the Norman shaft sped onward; full, full and fairly it plunged223 into the left side of the hapless monarch, unguarded by the arm which he had cast aloft. The keen point actually drove clear through his body, and through his stout buff coat, coming out over his right hip112; while the goose-feather, which had winged it to its royal mark, was literally224 dabbled225 in his life-blood!
Without a breath, a groan226, a struggle, the Conqueror’s son dropped lifeless from his saddle. His horse, freed from the pressure of the master-limbs that had so well controlled him, reared upright as the monarch fell, and, with a wild, quick snort of terror, rushed furiously away into the forest. The bloodhounds had already, by the fierce cunning of their race, discovered that their game was wounded, and had joined freshly with his old pursuers; while he, who did the deed, gazed for one moment horror-stricken on the work of his right hand, and then, without so much as drawing nigh to see if anything of life remained to his late master, casting his fatal bow into the bushes, put spurs to his unwearied horse, and drew not bridle till he reached the coast; whence, taking ship, he crossed the seas, and fell in Holy Land, hoping by many deeds of wilful66 bloodshed—such is the inconsistency of man—to win God’s pardon for one involuntary slaughter227.
Hours rolled away. The sun had set already, and his last gleams were rapidly departing from the skies, nor had the moon yet risen, when six horsemen came slowly, searching as it were for traces on the earth, up the same alley198 along which Tyrrel and the king had ridden with such furious speed since noontide. The lingering twilight did not suffice to show the features of the group, but the deep tones of the second rider were those of the bereaved228 and vengeful father.
59 “How now?” he said, addressing his words to the man who led the way, mounted upon a shaggy forest-pony; “how now, Sir Saxon!—is it for this we saved thee from the tyrant’s hangmen, that thou shouldst prove a blind guide in this matter?”
“Norman,” replied the other, still scanning, as he spoke90, the ground dinted and torn by the fresh hoof-tracks, “my heart thirsts for vengeance not less than thine; nor is our English blood less stanch, although it be less fiery, than the hottest stream that swells229 the veins230 of your proud race! I tell you, Rufus hath passed here, and he hath not turned back. You shall have your revenge!”
Even as he spoke, the beast which he bestrode set his feet firm and snuffed the air, staring as though his eyeballs would start from their sockets231, and uttering a tremulous, low neigh. “Blood hath been shed here! and that, I trow, since sunset! Jesu! what have we now?” he cried, as his eye fell upon the carcass that so lately had exulted232 in the possession of health, and energy, and strength, and high dominion233. “By Thor the Thunderer, it is the tyrant’s corpse234!”
“And slain,” replied the father, “slain by another’s hand than mine! Curses, ten thousand curses, on him who shot this shaft!” While he was speaking he dismounted, approached the body of his destined235 victim, and gazed with an eye of hatred236 most insatiably savage upon the rigid237 face and stiffening238 limbs; then drawing his broad dagger—“I have sworn!” he muttered, as he besmeared its blade with the dark, curdled239 gore—“I have sworn! Lie there and rot,” he added, spurning240 the body with his foot. “And now we must away, for we are known and noted; and, whoso did the deed, ’tis we shall bear the blame of it. We must see other lands. I will but leave a brief word with the monks241 of Lymington, that they commit my poor boy to a hallowed tomb, and then farewell, fair England!” And they, too, rode away, nor were they ever seen again on60 British soil; nor—though shrewd search was made for them until the confessor of Tyrrel, when that bold spirit had departed, revealed the real slayer242 of the king—did any rumor243 of their residence or fortunes reach any mortal ear.
The moon rose over the New Forest broad and unclouded, and the dew fell heavy over glade and woodland. The night wore onward, and the bright planet set, and one by one the stars went out—and still the king lay there untended and alone. The morning mists were rising, when the rumbling117 sound of a rude cart awoke the echoes of that fearful solitude26. A charcoal-burner of the forest was returning from his nocturnal labors244, whistling cheerfully the burden of some Saxon ballad245, as he threaded the dark mazes246 of the green-wood. A wiry-looking cur—maimed, in obedience247 to the forest-law, lest he should chase the deer reserved to the proud conquerors248 alone—followed the footsteps of his master, who had already passed the corpse, when a half-startled yelp249, followed upon the instant by a most melancholy250 howl, attracted the attention of the peasant. After a moment’s search he found, although he did not recognise, the cause of his dog’s terror; and, casting it upon his loaded cart, bore it to the same church whereat but a few hours before the living sovereign had determined251 to glut252 his fierce eyes with the death-pangs of his fellow-man. Strange are the ways of Providence253. That destined man lived after his intended torturer! And, stranger yet, freed from his bonds, that he might minister unto the slaughter of that self-same torturer, he found his purpose frustrate—frustrate, as it were, by its accomplishment—his meditated254 deed anticipated, his desperate revenge forestalled255.—“Verily, vengeance is mine,” saith the Lord, “and I will repay it.”
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