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For mewing of her up, I found her a shelter, in all honour and safety, under the roof of an honest countryman of my own and for secrecy, it was a point of prudence, when wantons like you were abroad, Master Lowestoffe."
Next to having stout and friendly comrades, a man is chiefly emboldened by finding himself well armed in case of need, and Nigel, who had thought with some anxiety on the hazard of trusting his life, if attacked, to the protection of the clumsy weapon with which Lowestoffe had equipped him, in order to complete his disguise, felt an emotion of confidence approaching to triumph, as, drawing his own good and well-tried rapier, he wiped it with his handkerchief, examined its point, bent it once or twice against the ground to prove its well-known metal, and finally replaced it in the scabbard, the more hastily, that he heard a tap at the door of his chamber, and had no mind to be found vapouring in the apartment with his sword drawn.
"I take it on your report, Master Lowestoffe," he said; "I hope you will remember I have insisted neither upon weight nor tale I have been civil if there is deficiency I shall come to loss." "Fillip his nose with a gold-piece, Richie," quoth the Templar. "Take up the papers, and now wend we merrily to dine thou wot'st where."
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