"He could not else have received injury in these few hours.
Speak, Cuthbert; tell us! is it not so ?" "I have been something rough handled," answered the lad in a low voice; "but I did not feel it greatly till I began to climb the hill.
"I thank you, good Philip.

I will be glad of your arm.

But I am better already." "You look like a veritable ghost," said Kate, still brimming over with pity and indignation.

"What did that miserable man do to you ?" "Why, naught that he has not done a score of times before--tied me to the pillar and flogged me like a dog.

Only he laid his blows on something more fiercely than is his wont, and doubled the number of them.