27/31 In spite of the serious expression of their faces, Philip saw that all were in high, if restrained, spirits at again taking service. I have warranted that he shall find you good and true men, and I hope you will do justice to my recommendation." "We will do our best," Roger, the eldest of the party, said. "We are all right glad to be moving again. It is not as if we had been bred on the soil here, and a man never takes to a strange place as to one he was born in." "You are Gascons, Maitre Bertram tells me," Philip said. We were driven out from there ten years ago, when the troubles were at their worst. |