` Suddenly a clump of Saxons ran out upon me and , seeing a Norman alone , would have killed me , but my Saxon cried out that I was his prisoner , and beat them off . Thus , see you , he saved my life . He put me on my horse and led me through the woods ten long miles to this valley . ' ` To here , d'you mean ? ' said Una . ` To this very valley . We came in by the Lower Ford under the King 's Hill yonder ' -- he pointed eastward where the valley widens . ` And was that Saxon Hugh the novice ? ' Dan asked . ` Yes , and more than that . He had been for three years at the monastery at Bec by Rouen , where ' -- Sir Richard chuckled -- ` the Abbot Herluin would not suffer me to remain . ' ` Why would n't he ? ' said Dan . ` Because I rode my horse into the refectory , when the scholars were at meat , to show the Saxon boys we Normans were not afraid of an Abbot . It was that very Saxon Hugh tempted me to do it , and we had not met since that day . I thought I knew his voice even inside my helmet , and , for all that our Lords fought , we each rejoiced we had not slain the other . He walked by my side , and he told me how a Heathen God , as he believed , had given him his sword , but he said he had never heard it sing before . I remember I warned him to beware of sorcery and quick enchantments . ' Sir Richard smiled to himself . ' I was very young -- very young !
` When we XXXXX to his house here we had almost forgotten that we had been at blows .
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