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And then, without giving time to answer, "Thou canst not deny that I met thee then at thy bidding, canst thou, Falworth?" "Nay," said Myles, "nor haply canst thou deny it either." And at this covert reminder of his defeat Myles's followers laughed scoffingly and Blunt bit his lip. "Thou hast said it," said he. "Then sin.
No, boy; thou must not even look to be taken into the household to serve with gentlemen as the other squires do serve, but must even live thine own life here and fight thine own way." Myles's eyes blazed.
It was Myles's heart thrilled and his blood boiled to lie in wait for him, to overpower him by numbers, and to mutilate him by slitting his ears a disgraceful punishment administered, as a rule, only for thieving and poaching. "He would not dare to do such a thing!" cried Myles, with heaving breast and flashing eyes. "Aye, but he would," said Gascoyne.
When Myles opened his eyes after that moment of stunning silence, it was to see the other looming above him on his war-horse, swinging his gisarm for one last mortal blow pitiless, merciless. The sight of that looming peril brought back Myles's wandering senses like a flash of lightning. He flung up his shield, and met the blow even as it descended, turning it aside. It only protracted the end.
The earl, at once checking and spurring his foaming charger, drove the iron-shod war-horse directly over Myles's prostrate body. Then, checking him fiercely with the curb, reined him back, the hoofs clashing and crashing, over the figure beneath. So he had ridden over the father at York, and so he rode over the son at Smithfield.
And so it was that Myles's body as well as his mind had to be trained to meet the needs of the dark age in which he lived. Every morning, winter or summer, rain or shine he tramped away six long miles to the priory school, and in the evenings his mother taught him French. Myles, being prejudiced in the school of thought of his day, rebelled not a little at that last branch of his studies.
The next moment the silence was broken, and the uproar broke forth with redoubled violence. The bachelors, leaping from the benches, came hurrying forward on one side, and Myles's friends from the other. "Thou shalt smart for this, Falworth," said one of the older lads. "Belike thou hast slain him!"
Haply your Highness will find more joyance in a lusty young knight like Sir Myles than in an old fox like myself. So I leave him with you, in your good care." Such was Myles's introduction to the wild young madcap Prince of Wales, afterwards the famous Henry V, the conqueror of France.
But perhaps of all the memory of that time, when it afterwards came back piece by piece, none was so clear to Myles's back-turned vision as the long night spent in the chapel, watching his armor, thinking such wonderful thoughts, and dreaming such wonderful wide-eyed dreams.
Then to go to the palace, for he hath gained audience with the King, and hath so arranged it that the Earl of Alban is to be there as well. We all go straightway; so get thyself ready as soon as may be." Perhaps Myles's heart began beating more quickly within him at the nearness of that great happening which he had looked forward to for so long.
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