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Sir Ludar

CHAPTER FOUR
10/22

Is it a bargain ?" "As you please," said he, and fell asleep.
I was the more pleased with this exchange, as I remembered what Master Udal had said concerning the fancy Master Penry might take for my brave cloak.

It would be safer here, protecting my comrade, than flaunting in the eyes of the ravenous youth of Oxford.
When I arose next morning with the sun, my bedfellow still slept heavily.

I could not forbear taking a look at him as he lay there.

His face in sleep, with all the care and unrest out of it, looked like that of some boyish, resolute Greek divinity.

His arm was flung carelessly behind his head, and the tawny hair which strayed over the pillow served as a setting for his fine-cut features.
But I had no time for admiring Greek divinities just then; and slipping on the scholar's robe and cap, which, to my thinking, made me a monstrous fine fellow, I left my own cloak at his bedside, and, taking my letter, started on my errand, afoot.
In the clear morning I could plainly see the towers of the city ahead of me before I had been long on the road.


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