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Saint George for England

CHAPTER I: A WAYFARER
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What a joy it will be to her to see you again!" So saying, Giles led the way to the apartment above.

There was a scream of surprise and joy from his wife, and then Giles quietly withdrew downstairs again, leaving the women to cry in each other's arms.
A few days later Geoffrey Ward entered the shop of Giles Fletcher.
"I have brought you twenty score of arrowheads, Master Giles," he said.
"They have been longer in hand than is usual with me, but I have been pressed.

And how goes it with the lady whom I brought to your door last week ?" "But sadly, Master Ward, very sadly, as I told you when I came across to thank you again in her name and my own for your kindness to her.

She was but in poor plight after her journey; poor thing, she was little accustomed to such wet and hardship, and doubtless they took all the more effect because she was low in spirit and weakened with much grieving.

That night she was taken with a sort of fever, hot and cold by turns, and at times off her head.


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