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Sir Ludar

CHAPTER FOUR
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CHAPTER FOUR.
HOW I MET A RUNAWAY SCHOLAR.
As I entered the poor kitchen of the inn--for it was a sorry shed altogether--there rose to meet me a figure which, if I live to Methuselah's age, I shall not easily forget.

He was tall and had the limbs of a giant.

His hair was tawny and inclined to red, and hung in disorderly waves on his shoulders.

His raiment--for he had flung his scholar's cap and robe to a corner of the room--was poor and ragged, and seemed scarcely to hang together on his brawny back.

His arms were long and nervous, and the hands at the end of them twitched uneasily even while the rest of his body was motionless.


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