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Updated: May 9, 2025

But the murmur among the archers, the lealest part of the earl's retainers, continued, till there stepped forth their captain, a gray old man, but still sinewy and unbent, the iron relic of a hundred battles. "Back to your men, Mark Forester!" said the earl, sternly. The old man obeyed not. He came on to Warwick, and fell on his knees beside his stirrup.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Last of the Barons — Complete