I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St.
Valentine's jest." So saying, the old man pulled in the prisoner and shut the door, leaving Henry a little surprised at the unexpected light in which his father-in-law had viewed the affray.
"A jest!" he said; "it might have been a strange jest, if they had got into the maiden's sleeping room! And they would have done so, had it not been for the honest friendly voice from betwixt the buttresses, which, if it were not that of the blessed saint--though what am I that the holy person should speak to me ?--could not sound in that place without her permission and assent, and for which I will promise her a wax candle at her shrine, as long as my whinger; and I would I had had my two handed broadsword instead, both for the sake of St.Johnston and of the rogues, for of a certain those whingers are pretty toys, but more fit for a boy's hand than a man's.

Oh, my old two handed Trojan, hadst thou been in my hands, as thou hang'st presently at the tester of my bed, the legs of those rogues had not carried their bodies so clean off the field.

But there come lighted torches and drawn swords.

So ho--stand! Are you for St.Johnston?
If friends to the bonny burgh, you are well come." "We have been but bootless hunters," said the townsmen.

"We followed by the tracks of the blood into the Dominican burial ground, and we started two fellows from amongst the tombs, supporting betwixt them a third, who had probably got some of your marks about him, Harry.