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And yet," he said, suddenly changing his manner, "this is but a cold return for a well-meant kindness. I thank you, my lord, most heartily. The King's equerries or prickers might find Roswal at disadvantage, and do him some injury, which I should not, perhaps, be slow in returning, and so ill might come of it.
'What a horridly stupid boy he must be, returned Mysie. 'Why, I remember when Jasper once had the 'Talisman' to do, and the big ones were so delighted. Mamma read it out, and I was just old enough to listen. I remembered all about Sir Kenneth and Roswal. 'Tom Sefton's not stupid! said Dolores, in wrath; 'but but the book is stupid and out of date!
You have seen so much of my house-keeping, my lord," he added, with a smile, "that I need not shame to say that Roswal is our principal purveyor, and well I hope our Lion Richard will not be like the lion in the minstrel fable, that went a-hunting, and kept the whole booty to himself.
His next, which to some persons, but scarce to any who have made intimate acquaintances among the canine race, may appear strange, was to examine the condition of his faithful Roswal, mortally wounded, as it seemed, in discharging the duty which his master had been seduced to abandon.
"Alas! poor Roswal," he said, "thou callest for aid and sympathy upon one in stricter bondage than thou thyself art. I will not seem to heed thee or return thy affection, since it would serve but to load our parting with yet more bitterness." Thus passed the hours of night and the space of dim hazy dawn which forms the twilight of a Syrian morning.
If I understand his words and surely it is impossible to misinterpret them he gives me a noble chance of redeeming my honour upon the crest of this false Marquis, whose guilt I read in his craven eye and quivering lip when the charge was made against him. Roswal, faithfully hast thou served thy master, and most dearly shall thy wrong be avenged!
May not one ask thee whether the rule of the troops remains with the shadow or the substance?" Conrade was commencing his reply with a smile, when Roswal, the noble hound, uttering a furious and savage yell, sprung forward.
"Fare thee well, Roswal, then," said Sir Kenneth "fare thee well, my last and only friend thou art too noble a possession to be retained by one such as I must in future call myself! I would," he said, as the slaves retired, "that, dying as he is, I could exchange conditions with that noble animal!"
These proceeded from the Mount of Saint George. He heard first a single, fierce, angry, and savage bark, which was immediately followed by a yell of agony. No deer ever bounded with a wilder start at the voice of Roswal than did Sir Kenneth at what he feared was the death-cry of that noble hound, from whom no ordinary injury could have extracted even the slightest acknowledgment of pain.
I would, in the meantime, were it no offence, willingly send you what would somewhat mend your cheer." "I thank you, sir," said Sir Kenneth, "but it needs not. Roswal hath already stocked my larder for two weeks, since the sun of Palestine, if it brings diseases, serves also to dry venison."
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