[Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookQuentin Durward CHAPTER VII: THE ENROLMENT 6/13
a fishmonger of a large sum of money.
They were accordingly apprehended by Philip du Four, Provost, with some of his followers.
But ere they could lodge one of them,...
in the prison of the Chastellet, they were attacked by two Archers of the King's Scottish Guard, who rescued the prisoner....
S.] "How often," he said, "will you bring me such ill winded pirns to ravel out? How often must I tell you, and especially both you, Ludovic Lesly, and you, Archie Cunningham, that the foreign soldier should bear himself modestly and decorously towards the people of the country if you would not have the whole dogs of the town at your heels? However, if you must have a bargain [a quarrel, videlicet.
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