But I will be avenged," he added, starting from his chair in impatience at the supposed injury, and catching hold of his boar-spear; "I will go with my complaint to the great council; I have friends, I have followers--man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists; let him come in his plate and his mail, and all that can render cowardice bold; I have sent such a javelin as this through a stronger fence than three of their war shields!--Haply they think me old; but they shall find, alone and childless as I am, the blood of Hereward is in the veins of Cedric.--Ah, Wilfred, Wilfred!" he exclaimed in a lower tone, "couldst thou have ruled thine unreasonable passion, thy father had not been left in his age like the solitary oak that throws out its shattered and unprotected branches against the full sweep of the tempest!"
Hej, Wilfred, Wilfred! - sóhajtotta immár halkabb hangon. - Miért is nem tudtál uralkodni balga szenve­délyeden! Akkor apád nem maradt volna öregségére egyedül, mint a magányos tölgy, amely védtelenül áll recsegő, kopár ágaival a tomboló viharban!