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Updated: June 23, 2025
"There is no danger," said Albert, knowing the sign "it is a friend; yet I wish he had been at a greater distance just now." "And why, my son, should you wish the absence of one true man, who may, perhaps, wish to share our abundance, on one of those rare occasions when we have superfluity at our disposal? Go, Joceline, see who knocks and, if a safe man, admit him."
"I am not Joceline Joliffe, as you may see, sir," said Kerneguy, calmly, drawing himself erect to show the difference of size, and dropping the cloak from his face and person. "Indeed!" replied the stranger, in surprise; "then, Sir Unknown, I have to express my regret at having used my cane in intimating that I wished you to stop.
"Put the wine-flasks into thy basket," said Joceline, "the knight must not lack his evening draught and down with thee to the hut like a lapwing. There is enough for supper, and to-morrow is a new day. Ha! by heaven I thought yonder man's eye watched us No he only rolled it round him in a brown study Deep enough doubtless, as they all are.
But there was no time for hesitation. Bevis, who had already bayed more than once from within the Lodge, was growing impatient, and Everard had but just time to bid Wildrake hold the horses until he should send Joceline to his assistance, when old Joan unpinned the door, to demand who was without at that time of the night.
Joceline pointed out the peculiarities of the place to his gloomy companion more briefly than we have detailed them to the reader. The Independent seemed to listen with some interest at first, but, flinging it suddenly aside, he said in a solemn tone, "Perish, Babylon, as thy master Nebuchadnezzar hath perished!
He bowed, and replaced the tankard, saying, after a triumphant glance at the sculpture, "I had a gibe with that same red-coat about the Saint Michael just now." "Red-coat ha! what red-coat?" said the hasty old man. "Do any of these knaves still lurk about Woodstock? Quoit him down stairs instantly, Joceline. Know we not Galloway nags?"
Joceline stooped, and took from the floor a man's glove, of the fashion worn by the troopers, having something like the old-fashioned gauntleted projections of thick leather arising from the wrist, which go half way up to the elbow, and secure the arm against a cut with a sword.
As he spoke, steps were heard in the hall, and the wicket of the great door was partly opened, but secured with a chain in case of accidents. The visage of Tomkins, and that of Joceline beneath it, appeared at the chink, illuminated by the lamp which the latter held in his hand, and Tomkins demanded the meaning of this alarm. "I demand instant admittance!" said Everard.
"And of his father, James, before him, and Elizabeth, before him, and bluff King Henry, who builded that wing, before them all." "And there, I suppose, the knight and his daughter dwelt?" "No," replied Joceline; "Sir Henry Lee had too much reverence for for things which are now thought worth no reverence at all Besides, the state-rooms are unaired, and in indifferent order, since of late years.
"Dally not with me, friend," continued Oliver; "I profess to thee in sincerity I am no trifler. What guests have you seen at yonder house called the Lodge?" "Many a brave guest in my day, I'se warrant ye, master," said Joceline. "Ah, to see how the chimneys used to smoke some twelve years back! Ah, sir, a sniff of it would have dined a poor man."
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