[A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang]@TWC D-Link bookA Monk of Fife CHAPTER VIII--OF CERTAIN QUARRELS THAT CAME ON THE HANDS OF NORMAN LESLIE 7/17
And thereafter, with great mirth and noise, they set forth to climb the hill towards the castle, where I was led, through many a windy passage, to the chamber of Sir Hugh Kennedy.
There were torches lit, and the knight, a broad-shouldered, fair-haired man, with a stern, flushed face, was turning over and gazing at his new Book of Hours, like a child busy with a fresh toy.
He laid the book down when we entered, and the senior of the two archers who accompanied me told him that I was he who had been summoned. "Your name ?" he asked; and I gave it. "You are of gentle blood ?" And I answering "Yes," he replied, "Then see that you are ready to shed it for the King.
Your life that was justly forfeit, is now, by his Royal mercy, returned to you, to be spent in his service.
Rutherford and Douglas, go take him to quarters, and see that to-morrow he is clad as beseems a man of my command.
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