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He then gave some hasty directions, appointed old Silverlocks, a skilled and tried warrior, to take the place of Seneschal for the time, and to superintend the arrangements; and sending two men to guard the entrance of Montfort's tower, where Sanchez and his accomplices had shut themselves up, he returned to the Castellane's chamber. Never was there an apartment more desolate.
"How bold he spoke, weak and wounded as he was!" "He is of the old English stock," said a third, "a brave, stout-hearted young Knight." "Well spoken, old Simon Silverlocks," said Gaston, entering. "I doubt where you would find another such within the wide realm of France." "He is brave enough, that no man doubts," answered Simon, "but somewhat of the strictest, especially considering his years.
Poor Brigliador! I am glad he has a kind master in Ingram!" "Have they won the court?" asked Eustace. "I thought I heard their shouts within it." "Ay! Even so. How could we guard such an extent of wall with barely five and twenty men? Old Silverlocks and Jaques de l'Eure are slain Martin badly wounded, and we all forced back into the inner court, after doing all it was in a man to do."
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