A Child's History of England.25
It was a September morning, and the sun was rising, when the King was awakened from slumber by the sound of a church bell. 'What bell is that?' he faintly asked. They told him it was the bell of the chapel of Saint Mary. 'I commend [托付] my soul,' said he, 'to Mary!' and died.
Think of his name, The Conqueror, and then consider how he lay in death! The moment he was dead, his physicians, priests, and nobles, not knowing what contest for the throne might now take place, or what might happen in it, hastened away, each man for himself and his own property; the mercenary servants of the court began to rob and plunder; the body of the King, in the indecent strife, was rolled from the bed, and lay alone, for hours, upon the ground. O Conqueror, of whom so many great names are proud now, of whom so many great names thought nothing then, it were better to have conquered one true heart, than England!
六级/考研单词: faint, chapel, saint, commend, conquer, physician, priest, noble, contest, throne, rob
By-and-by [later], the priests came creeping in with prayers and candles; and a good knight, named Herluin, undertook (which no one else would do) to convey the body to Caen, in Normandy, in order that it might be buried in St. Stephen's church there, which the Conqueror had founded. But fire, of which he had made such bad use in his life, seemed to follow him of itself in death. A great conflagration [专八单词] broke out in the town when the body was placed in the church; and those present running out to extinguish the flames, it was once again left alone.
It was not even buried in peace. It was about to be let down, in its Royal robes, into a tomb near the high altar, in presence of a great concourse of people, when a loud voice in the crowd cried out, 'This ground is mine! Upon it, stood my father's house. This King despoiled me of both ground and house to build this church. In the great name of God, I here forbid his body to be covered with the earth that is my right!' The priests and bishops present [在场的 ≠absent], knowing the speaker's right, and knowing that the King had often denied him justice, paid him down*
sixty shillings for the grave. Even then, the corpse was not at rest. The tomb was too small, and they tried to force it in. It broke, a dreadful smell arose, the people hurried out into the air, and, for the third time, it was left alone.
六级/考研单词: priest, creep, knight, undertake, convey, conquer, extinguish, flame, loud, prohibit, bishop, seldom, grave, corpse, dread, haste, tertiary
If you pay money down on sth, you pay part of the money you owe for it.
down payment: a small payment for sth you are buying, when you will pay the rest later, 首付
Where were the Conqueror's three sons, that they were not at their father's burial? Robert was lounging among minstrels, dancers, and gamesters, in France or Germany. Henry was carrying his five thousand pounds safely away in a convenient chest [大箱子, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest] he had got made. William the Red was hurrying to England, to lay hands upon the Royal treasure and the crown.
六级/考研单词: conquer, lounge, pirate, treasury
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