Neither the Abbot of Quarr nor Lord Woodville had forgotten him. The former sent some money for his expenses at the worthy1 citizen's house, and the latter sent him a tabard of white taffeta, embroidered2 with the badge of the captain of the Island, in all respects like the other pages, with a supply of food from his own table; and the servant who brought these was directed to say that they would start at eight o'clock, and that he was to arrange all matters with his host.
Punctually at half-past seven Humphrey brought round Ralph's horse, well brushed and groomed3, and Ralph, looking more handsome than ever in his new surcoat, with his sword buckled4 to his belt, and his silver-hilted poignard, stood in all the pride of conscious importance at the doorstep, the admired of all the little street-boys and burgesses who were up and about at that hour; while he was conscious of many a girlish face looking out from the casements5 of the houses opposite and above him, glancing down smiles of approval, for all the city knew what he had done, and who he was, the Lisles of Thruxton and Mansbridge being well-known throughout the county.
His worthy host and hostess were loud in their regrets at his departure, and at first refused all offer of remuneration, but Ralph pressed it on them with so much gratitude7 and delicacy8, that their scruples9 yielded, and they accepted it with evident reluctance10, and only on condition that when he was a belted knight11 he would come back and see them. This was touching12 Ralph in his weakest point. He promised with a conscious smile, and mounted his horse amid the loudly-expressed admiration13 of the little crowd.
As he rode down the street, Humphrey caught sight of a well-known face.
"Why, there's old Dickon of Andover! Dickon, I say," he called out, "an you be a-going home to-night, go up to Thruxton and say how you seen the young master all well, and say as how he sends greetings to my lord and her leddyship. Ye mind now?"
"Oh, ay, I'se mind," cried back old Dickon, stopping to gaze upon Ralph. "Well now he do look foine, to be sure."
And so they turned into the street where the cortège was in waiting for the Captain of the Wight to come out.
Ralph felt a little shy as he rode up to the large body of archers14 and men-at-arms that blocked up the street, but he soon felt at ease as he was greeted kindly15 by Maurice Woodville and Dicky Cheke, who were on the look out for him.
"Willie Newenhall is still stuffing," said the latter, "and as for Eustace, he is putting the last touch of paint to his cheeks; he's such a coxcomb16, you'd never guess half he does."
But now all drew up in order. The men-at-arms sat erect17, and held their lances upright; the knights18 and mounted archers drew their swords; the yeomen and billmen held their halberds and bills at attention and a flourish of trumpets19 announced that the Captain of the Wight was issuing from the house.
As Lord Woodville came out, followed by his guests, among whom Ralph recognised his kinsman20 the Abbot of Quarr, he glanced quickly over the assembled troop. His keen eye took in everything, but with the dignity befitting his rank he never mentioned what he saw amiss at the time, making a note of it in his memory, to call the attention of the proper officer to it privately21, while if he saw anything to praise he always publicly expressed his approval.
In the present case his eye fell on Ralph, but knowing how trying it would be for the young boy to be called out before all that assembly, he merely nodded to him with a kind smile of recognition, and said,--
"Ah, there's my trusty young friend; right glad am I to see him so blythe this morning. Sir John Trenchard, you will see to his comfort, I know."
He then mounted his steed, the stirrup being held for him by Willie Newenhall, as the oldest of his pages.
The captain of the guard gave the order to march, and the leading files turned down to the right, and directed their way to Southampton.
Ralph did not see much of the old city of Winchester, but he had been there several times before, and old buildings had little charms for him, with the animation22 of life before him. Men, not grey stones, however skilfully23 carved, or however cunningly piled up, were his attraction.
The delicious air of the morning played over his face; the delightful24 sensation of being part of what men stopped to look at, an object of awe25 and admiration, this thrilled him, and he yielded to the temptation, so natural to exuberant26 youth, of giving himself airs, and thinking of his appearance. At first the sense of shyness had kept this feeling of self-admiration down, but as he rode along, and noticed the glance of the passers-by, how they stopped to gaze open-mouthed at them, and how loud were the expressions of approval at the fine appearance of the cavalcade27, he began to feel his own importance, and was fast adopting the easy self-satisfaction of the other pages.
By the time they had reached Southampton, which they did in rather less than three hours from leaving Winchester, he felt on perfectly28 easy terms with everyone, including Eustace Bowerman even, who, however, did not seem inclined to be very friendly to him, seeming not to relish29 the remark of Maurice Woodville when he said,--
"Certes, Bowerman, Lisle oweth thee many thanks. Had it not been for thy kind thought, he would never have done so hardily30 as he hath. He would have been sitting his nag31 like any stick, such as you and old Pudding Face, when the bull ran at our lord--but now he hath gotten himself a name at the first start; our Captain will never forget."
Bowerman bit his lip. It was quite true.
"Marry, young Maurice, don't you be talking. If Lisle's horse took fright and bolted when the bull came blundering down that alley32, I don't see why the Captain should make such a fuss about it."
"His horse didn't bolt," said Dicky hotly; "you know right well Lisle spurred him in the way."
"Nay33, Master Dicky malapert, I know no such thing."
"Then you don't know much, as I always said," retorted Dicky.
"Marry, Dicky, I'll have to wallop thee once more, I see. You're growing saucy34 again."
"Wallop me i' faith!" sneered35 Dicky; "I'd like to see you doing it."
"Wait till we get on board the barge36 then, and you'll soon be satisfied."
Willie Newenhall never engaged in these wordy contests. He only thought of his appearance, when he was going to feed again, or of the danger he was always in from the fair sex, by reason of his own good looks. The other pages knew well his weak points, and would always chaff37 him on the risks he ran from his many fascinations38.
"I' faith, Willie, there's a pretty lass looking at thee; and that's her brother, or sweetheart, with her. How fierce he looks. Ah, if you look at her that way, he'll be murdering you presently," added Dicky, as Willie looked round nervously39, to see the group his comrade was referring to, only to meet with a jeering40 remark from the apprentice41 who was standing42 by the girl, of "Hi, young round knave43, pudding chops or pig's eyes, what do you lack here?" or some equally elegant observation, which caused Maurice and Dicky to laugh derisively44, and the men-at-arms and archers, who were close behind, to grin broadly.
But Willie was far too stupid to make any retort, he only grunted45 angrily, and leered at the people on the other side of the street.
Then they passed through Southampton, under the noble Bargate, with its figure of Bevis of Hampton, and the giant Ascapart, whose reality all true townsfolk believed in, and of whose doughty46 deeds with Guy of Warwick Ralph had often heard and longed to emulate47. The cavalcade rode down the long street under the old west gate tower, and outside the splendid old walls, on to the town quay48.
Oh, the sight of the gleaming water! Ralph had never seen the sea before--how it glanced and sparkled in the mid-day sun of June. The dim haze49 of the opposite shore, where stretched the New Forest away and away far into the land and down the coast, with all its memories of ancient times. The splash of the little waves, rippling50 before the fresh north breeze, as they sparkled against the bluff51 bows of the unwieldy barges52 or straighter stems of the swifter galleys53. How stately was the curve of a high-prowed, lofty-pooped merchant ship as she came round to the helm, while all her sails fluttered in the breeze as her bows ran up in the wind, and the heavy splash told of the weighty anchor dropping to the muddy bottom of the Teste.
Then the smells, the sounds, the cries. Ralph had never enjoyed life before. All the instincts of his race came out in him,--of that ancient race of the island, whose origin was lost in the dim vista54 of antiquity55, whose lands belonged to the mysterious sons of Stur long before the Norman Conquest, and passed by marriage to De Lisle, if indeed De Lisle was not simply the Norman form of expression for the original lord of the island, for who could more worthily56 be called "de insula" or "of the island" or "De Lisle" than that family which was above all others "of the island?" since the possessions of the "filius Azor" or "Stur" are the most important of any, as recorded in Domesday book.
The instincts of his sea-girt ancestors rose in him, and Ralph Lisle gazed at the dancing water with eager delight.
The scene of confusion that then followed delighted him still more. The getting the horses on board, the telling off the various parties each to its own barge, the excitement of pushing out into the stream, or warping58 the larger vessels59 off to their kedge anchors, which were dropped in the middle of the fairway, all this was delicious, and Ralph felt he was in a wonderful dream.
"Mind your eye, young Popinjay!" bawled61 a burly seaman62. "Stand clear o' that warp57 now," as Ralph took his stand on a large coil of rope near the bows. "Such a gay bird as you should know better than to stand on a warp that way. Did yer think 'twas a doormat?"
In a few minutes the barge was hauled out into the stream, the anchor was right up and down.
"Haul away there," called the captain.
Out flapped the big foresail in the breeze, the jib was run out, the anchor was up, and hanging at the bows, already the water was chattering63 under her stem.
"Now then, my lads, shake out that mainsail. Look alive there!" bawled the skipper, and the great white sail dropped down from the mainmast and longyard, where it had been brailed up, and swelled64 out in the breeze, louder chattered65 the wavelets under the bow, and merrily the seamen66 sheeted home the ropes.
Ralph had now time to look round him. He was on the same barge as Lord Woodville and his immediate67 escort. The horses with the grooms68 and men-at-arms were on a large barge that was running alongside of them. On their right, but a little astern, was another barge containing the rest of the troop, and among them Ralph was glad to see the beggar man and his daughter.
The baggage and vanguard had gone on early in the morning, under the charge of Tom o' Kingston.
Ralph looked up at the swelling69 sails and the tall masts. The barge was bluff-bowed and high-sterned, like those remnants of the Middle Ages the Breton and Norman chasses marées of modern times, and like them she carried three large lug70 sails, and one jib, set far out on a high peaked bowsprit.
As this was the barge of the captain of the Island, she was far better appointed than the other vessels. Her sails were white, and adorned71 with the arms of the Lord Woodville, argent, a fess, and canton, gules, while the mainsail bore the arms of Newport, the capital of the Island. The ropes were all white and new, and the decks and bulwarks72 were scrupulously73 clean, and the latter fresh varnished74.
Ralph was never tired of looking aloft at the large blocks or pulleys, the strong ropes, the stout75 masts, and the swelling sails lazily falling in graceful76 folds as the breeze died down, or bellying77 out to the fresher puffs78 of the fair weather wind.
He leaned over the side and watched the ripple79 of the water as the hull80 glided81 through it. How dark green the sea looked on the side where the shadow of the hull and sails fell, how mellow82 and blue it sparkled on the side where the sunlight shone upon it. He looked at the other barges; they were rippling through the sea, a little fount of water spouting83 up under the cutwater, and glancing off the bows in a lovely curve of spray, the one vessel60 all shadow, the other all bright and gleaming in the sun.
The tide was running out strongly. Swiftly they flew past Netley, its abbey towers rising out of the green woods, the toll84 of its bell sounding over the water the hour of nones; gaily85 they flew past the mouth of the Hamble, and in a short time were gliding86 out by Calshott Spit, running before the breeze into the stronger ripple of the main tide of the Solent.
But long ere this Ralph had been summoned to dinner, and for the first time he was called upon to wait upon his lord. It was his duty to serve him with wine, and deftly87 he performed his task, for he had been well taught at home. The motion of the vessel was scarcely perceptible, and his hand was very steady. After the Captain of the Wight and his guests had been served, the pages sat down apart to their repast, and Ralph was astonished at his own appetite.
"I tell you what it is, little eyes," cried Dicky, "you'll have to look after yourself, or Lisle will leave you nothing to eat."
To this Willie Newenhall made no answer, but glanced askance at Ralph, and eat away harder than ever.
"There, there, Willie, dear, don't be afraid; he'll leave you a bit, if you are a good lad, I don't doubt," laughed Maurice.
It had been Bowerman's duty to attend closely upon his lord, and he had found no opportunity to put his threat in execution. However, now the repast was over, he began to remember what had passed.
"Dicky," he said, "come hither."
"Not I," said that lively young gentleman. "You can come here, if you want me."
"Be quiet, varlets!" called out Sir John Trenchard, who was sitting on a settle on the deck not far off. "If you want to jangle, wait till you get ashore88."
They were now splashing through the tide, which ran swiftly over the Brambles, the steersman keeping the vessel's head well up to it, so as not to be carried down past the Newport river.
Larger and larger loomed89 up the island. Away to their left lay Portsmouth and the ridge6 of Portsdown; to their right they could see far down the Solent, point after point standing up in ever-decreasing clearness, until the distant Node Hill, above Freshwater, where the land trended away to the south-west, loomed up faint and grey in the shimmering90 haze of the lovely afternoon.
Nearer and nearer they drew to the island, and as they approached the land Ralph saw that a fine stretch of water opened up ahead.
"The tide's making out amain yet," said the skipper, approaching Lord Woodville, with cap in hand. "What will be your lordship's pleasure? Shall we run in and anchor, and land your lordship, or will it please you that we try to stem the tide? Natheless it will be but a poor job we shall make of it till the tide turns; and then we sha'n't have water far up for some while."
"Run us ashore at Northwood,[*] we will ride up to Carisbrooke. Our baggage can come up afterwards, in the evening, when the tide makes enough to float you up to Newport Quay."
[*] Cowes as yet (1487) was not. The building of the castles by Henry VIII., sixty years afterwards, was the beginning of Cowes.
"Ay, ay, my lord."
Ralph watched the movements of the crew with curiosity. As they ran in before the wind, which was very fitful, he saw them brail up the mainsail, then as they ran up past the land, which was all covered with woods and bush, they took in the foresail, and gently, under the light pressure of the jib, the barge slithered on the mud, close to a shingle91 hard, where it was possible to disembark at low tide.
And now again all was confusion. The other barges ran in alongside the Captain's. The gangways were lowered down. The horses with great difficulty were partly lowered, partly driven out on to the shingle. The grooms and men-at-arms got out, and led the horses up to form their ranks on the grass sward at the foot of the woods, which then stretched in unbroken verdure from Northwood Church to Gurnard Bay and Thorness, forming part of the King's Forest of Alvington, Watchingwell, or Parkhurst.
The Lord Woodville, when all was ready, disembarked with his guests, and, attended by his pages, he mounted his horse on the green grass above, great state being observed, and great care taken, by laying down mats and cloths, that he should not soil his feet on the muddy shingle.
As soon as he was mounted, the order to advance was given, and the cavalcade set off for Carisbrooke, through the green woods by the side of the blue Medina, glancing through the stems of the trees by the roadside. More than ever Ralph felt grateful to the Abbot of Quarr for having presented him to so puissant92 a chief, and one under whom he should learn such courtesy and gentleness. He felt sorry to leave the sea and the ships, but rejoiced that their journey lay along the water side.
Humphrey had disembarked with him, and Ralph, looking back, saw that the beggar man and his daughter were still on the other barge.
"We shall have to look sharp after our pony93, Master Ralph," grumbled94 Humphrey.
As they rose over the hill by Northwood Church, where the churchyard was being prepared for the approaching consecration95, for up to this year the few inhabitants had to go all the way to Carisbrooke to bury their dead, Ralph looked back, and thought he had never seen anything so pretty. Below, lay the Newport creek96, clothed in thick woods on each side; beyond, stretched the blue Solent, the yellow line of the Hampshire coast and the grey distance blending with the mellow haze of the sky. The three barges, with their masts sloping at different angles, their great yards swinging athwart each other, and the sails only partially97 furled, giving animation and picturesqueness98 to the foreground, while above all spread the blue vault99 of heaven, cloudless and serene100.
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