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There my poor father stood under the gallows-tree with none to befriend 'en, when all of a sudden he heard a shouting up the street, and down along it, through the crowd, came a strange little lady, holding up her hand and a paper in it. The folk opened way respectful-like, seein' by the better-most air of her that she belonged to one of the gentry, and along she came to the scaffold.
Lide's the one nook in the Islands where you lost sight and almost sound of the sea, and could look out of window upon green trees was a better-most person and something of a scholar. But the Bishop of those days had a weak stomach, and, on the advice of his doctor, kept postponing the voyage.
There, in a sort of better-most cabin, lay a young man, dying wounded, as I afterwards learned, in an attack upon the Lord of Herst de Monceux. "A goodly man of some thirty years was he, and a goodly end he made. He told me his story, and as the lips of dying men speak the truth, I believed him.
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