Moreover, the winter is fast coming upon us, when the ground will be deep in snow, and no man not bred to it could make shift to live in the forest.

To London must I go first.

I trow the time will not be wasted; for I will earn money in honest fashion, that I may have the wherewithal to live when I go to seek this lost treasure.
"And now, my cousin, tell me all the tale.

I know not rightly how the treasure was lost, and I have never heard of the gipsy folks or their hatred to our house.

It behoves me to know all ere I embark on the quest." "Yea, verily; and I will tell thee all I know.