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The weapon had been bequeathed to him by a celebrated English outlaw named Hobbie Noble, who, having committed some deed for which he was in danger from justice, fled to Liddesdale, and became a follower, or rather a brother-in-arms, to the renowned Laird's Jock; till, venturing into England with a small escort, a faithless guide, and with a light single-handed sword instead of his ponderous brand, Hobbie Noble, attacked by superior numbers, was made prisoner and executed.
You are in love with Miss Asher anybody can see that and, in fact, I should think you were a pretty poor sort of a fellow if you were not, after having seen and talked with her. Consequently that Austrian is just as dangerous to you as he is to me. And as I have chosen you for my brother-in-arms, it is right that I tell you everything I know." "Brother-in-arms?" ejaculated Dick.
He first recalled to them the promise that Edward of England had made to him, and then went on: "The saints have worked in my favour," he said, "by sending here as my guest my well-beloved brother-in-arms, the great Earl of Wessex.
Will it profit your friend and brother-in-arms if it be afterward said that when this charge was brought against him, you, my Lord Rockingham, had so little faith in his power to refute it that you bore down with all your mighty strength in a personal assault upon one so weakly as myself, and sought to put an end to the evidence against him by bodily threats against my safety, and by what will look legally, my lord, like an attempt to coerce me into silence and to obtain the paper from my hands by violence?"
"The surest way to attain our object will be by forging still another chain. In short now I beg you to be quiet, your temper is far too hot for your grey hairs in short, our Hebrew brother-in-arms, the saviour of my life, the ablest man in the army, who is certain to win the highest place, must be your son-in-law. Kasana's heart is his my wife has told me so."
'In truth, brave Guy, you guess aright, replied Walter, taking his friend's hand. 'Rejoice with me, my brother-in-arms, for I have found him who was lost. 'Found your brother! found Osbert Espec! exclaimed Guy, in surprise. 'It is true as that I am a living man, replied Walter, joyfully.
I will have none of your traitor ruffians here. Since you have brought him in, the halter for him! Here, Ralf Percy, tell the Provost-marshal He was interrupted, for James unbuckled his sword, and tendered it to him. 'King Harry, he said gravely, 'this morning I was your friend and brother-in-arms; now I am your captive.
Spike was his brother-in-arms. He would as soon have thought of deserting him as a sea-captain would of abandoning the ship. Consequently, as Spike, despite all exhortations, continued to remain on the floor, rubbing his head and uttering "Gee!" at intervals in a melancholy voice, Jimmy resigned himself to fate, and stood where he was, waiting for the door to open.
Emilia could have retorted, "Cruel that you are!" The pain of having an unripe feeling plucked at without warning, was bitter; but she repressed any exclamation, in her desire to maintain simple and unsensational relations always with those surrounding her. "He is my friend," she said. "I think of something better than that other word. Oh, that I were a man, to call him my brother-in-arms!
And sad was the heart of Walter Espec, as he recalled the day when he landed at Damietta side by side with Guy Muschamp; and for the hundredth time asked himself mournfully whether his brother-in-arms had died for his faith, or whether a worse fate had befallen him.
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