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A Monk of Fife

CHAPTER III--WHAT BEFELL OUTSIDE OF CHINON TOWN
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ye shall have my news of it.

Begone! Off!" "Nay, but, Brother Thomas, saw'st thou what we saw?
What sight saw'st thou ?" "What saw I?
Fools, what should I have seen, but an outrider, and he a King's messenger, sent forward to warn the rest by his fall, if he fell, or to raise the country on us, if he passed, and if afterward they passed us not.

They were men wary in war, and travelling on the Dauphin's business.

Verily there was no profit in them." "And that was all?
We saw other things." "What I saw was enough for me, or for any good clerk of St.Nicholas, and of questions there has been more than enough.

Begone! scatter to the winds, and be silent." "And may we not put the steel in that Scotch dog who delayed us?
Saints or sorcerers, their horses must have come down but for him." Brother Thomas caught me up, as if I had been a child, in his arms, and tossed me over the ditch-bank into the wood, where I crashed on my face through the boughs.
"Only one horse would have fallen, and that had brought the others on us.
The Scot is safe enough, his mouth is well shut.


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