Well, if a man is to make no money in this world, be hanged at the end of it, and finally burn for ever, he hath assuredly wandered on to a thorny track.

If, on the other hand, one could always lay one's hands on a well-lined purse, as those rogues have done to-night, one might be content to risk something in the world to come.' 'But what can the well-filled purse do for them ?' said I.'What will the few score pieces which these bloodthirsty wretches have filched from this poor creature avail them when their own hour of death comes round ?' 'True,' said Saxon dryly; 'they may, however, prove useful in the meantime.

This you say is Bishopstoke.

What are the lights over yonder ?' 'They come, I think, from Bishop's Waltham,' I answered.
'We must press on, for I would fain be in Salisbury before it is broad day.

There we shall put our horses up until evening and have some rest, for there is nothing gained by man or beast coming jaded to the wars.
All this day the western roads will be crowded with couriers, and mayhap patrolled by cavalry as well, so that we cannot show our faces upon it without a risk of being stopped and examined.