Wulf the Saxon

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G. A. Henty. Wulf the Saxon

Preface

A Quarrel

Country Life

At Court

A Storm

Rouen

Release of the Earl

The Oath

Trouble with Wales

In the Welsh Valleys

Porthwyn

The Secret Passage

Edith

Harold, the King

Wulf’s Suspicions

A Meeting by the River

A Voyage North

An Attempt at Assassination

The Northern Invasion

Stamford Bridge

The Landing of the Foe

Hastings

The Lord of Bramber

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Wulf the Saxon

by G. A. Henty

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“I was wrong, my lord.”

“You were wrong, Wulf; it is not good always to say what we think; and you, as my page, should bear in mind that here at court it behoves you to behave and to speak not as a headstrong boy, but as one whose words may, rightly or wrongly, be considered as an echo of those you may have heard from me. And now to the third charge, that you withstood the prelate; a matter that, in the king’s eyes, is a very serious one.”

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