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My name and his are engraved on the clasp.
Should you, at any time of stress, send this to my father; right sure am I that, on recognizing it, he would treat as dear friends those who have done so much for his daughters.
I pray you to accept it, and to wear it always round your neck or wrist; and if it should never prove useful to you, it will at least recall us to your thoughts." "I cannot be so churlish, lady, as to refuse your token so offered; and though I hope that it will not be needful to use it as you say--for, indeed, I expect to return very shortly to my lord in Northumberland--it will be a pleasant remembrance of the service that a good fortune has enabled me to render, to two fair maidens.
Be assured that I shall ever keep your necklet, for the sake of the givers. "And now, farewell! We must be back at our post, for the captain of the guard will be going his round, and we might be missed." "We shall never forget you, sir.
May the blessing of God fall on you, for your kind deed!" "May all good fortune attend you!" Oswald answered; and then, with Roger, he made his way back to his post; while the girls hurried on, and entered the forest..
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