The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini
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"Aye - for having harboured me. That whelp of Montgomery's Foot suspects you." "Suspects? Am I a man of straw to be overset by a breath of suspicion?" "There is your lieutenant, Kenneth Stewart." "Who has been a party to your escape, and whose only course is therefore silence, lest he set a noose about his own neck. Come, Harry," he added, briskly, changing his manner, "the night wears on, and we have your safety to think of." Hogan rose with a sigh. "Give me a horse," said he, "and by God's grace tomorrow shall find me in Cromwell's camp. Heaven prosper and reward you, Cris." "We must find you clothes more fitting than these - a coat more staid and better attuned to the Puritan part you are to play." "Where have you such a coat?" "My lieutenant has. He affects the godly black, from a habit taken in that Presbyterian Scotland of his." "But I am twice his bulk!" |
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