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"It was not a'thegither on foot, sir," answered Jeanie; "for I sometimes got a cast in a waggon, and I had a horse from Ferrybridge, and then the coach " "Well, never mind all that," interrupted the Duke "What reason have you for thinking your sister innocent?" "Because she has not been proved guilty, as will appear from looking at these papers."
And may the king's man have a good supper at Ferrybridge and be long in the eating of it." Straight to the thicket rode Humphrey at a good pace, but he found no Hugo there. "Here is a snarl to be undone!" he cried. "The lad is too headstrong. Perchance he hath already run into the noose of the other king's man. For who knoweth where he is? And I shall be held to answer for it.
The King and the Earl of Warwick hastened, with an army of forty thousand men, to check her progress; and when they reached Pomfret they despatched a body of troops, under the command of Lord Fitzwalter, to secure the passage of Ferrybridge over the river Are, which lay between them and the enemy.
Timothy said he believed it would be the greatest favour he could do him to turn him out of a service in which he knew he should be rib-roasted every day, and murdered at last. "In this situation were things at Greavesbury Hall about a month ago, when I crossed the country to Ferrybridge, where I met my uncle.
He passed the river some miles above Ferrybridge, and, falling unexpectedly on Lord Clifford, revenged the former disaster by the defeat of the party and the death of their leader. The hostile armies met at Touton, and a fierce and bloody battle ensued.
"He may eat his fill if he will," said Humphrey, noting Hugo's expression of surprise. "He hath already so lowered our store that more must be bought." "And where?" inquired Hugo. "At Ferrybridge," returned Humphrey, complacently, to Hugo's dismay. "I had thought best to avoid Ferrybridge," said Hugo. "I would swim the horses across the Aire above the town."
'We are coming to Ferrybridge now, she said, 'where there was a party of OURS left to support the beadles, and constables, and justices, and these sort of creatures that are examining papers and stopping rebels, and all that. They were hardly in the inn before she dragged Waverley to the window, exclaiming, 'Yonder comes Corporal Bridoon, of our poor dear troop; he's coming with the constable man.
For what honor could it be to be caught by them? or what preferment to be laid by the heels in the king's dungeon? And canst thou see how it is meet for me to go into the town, and for thee and the hound to swim the river? I warrant thee the king's men, though they fill the streets of Ferrybridge, will be no match for me with such a dream as that." Then Hugo lost his temper.
The Lord Fairfax was come with his horse as far as Ferrybridge, but the fight was over, and all he could do was to rally those that fled, and save some of their carriages, which else had fallen into our hands.
Sydney says; but I think myself we are equal to any inn on the North Road, except Ferrybridge." The larder of this "second-rate inn" was pleasantly supplied by the kindness of faithful friends. "I am very much obliged to you for sending me the pheasants. One of my numerous infirmities is a love of eating pheasants."
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