But I was regularly dismissed, as will appear from the hand and seal of the Abbot himself." "That is right, that is well," said his uncle.

"Our King cares little what other theft thou mayst have made, but hath a horror at anything like a breach of the cloister.

And I warrant thee, thou hadst no great treasure to bear thy charges ?" "Only a few pieces of silver," said the youth; "for to you, fair uncle, I must make a free confession." "Alas!" replied Le Balafre, "that is hard.

Now, though I am never a hoarder of my pay, because it doth ill to bear a charge about one in these perilous times, yet I always have (and I would advise you to follow my example) some odd gold chain, or bracelet, or carcanet, that serves for the ornament of my person, and can at need spare a superfluous link or two, or it may be a superfluous stone for sale, that can answer any immediate purpose.

But you may ask, fair kinsman, how you are to come by such toys as this." (He shook his chain with complacent triumph.) "They hang not on every bush--they grow not in the fields like the daffodils, with whose stalks children make knights' collars.