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Then he drank another cup which Warcliff held out to him, and spake again: 'Yet if ye would abide here till about noon to-morrow, or mayhappen a little later, I would bring other runaways to see you; and them also might ye take with you: ye may think when ye see them that ye shall have small gain of their company; for poor wretched folk they be, like to myself.
'What matters? said Warcliff; 'perchance thou art for the cities this autumn? Face-of-god answered somewhat stiffly: 'Nay, I am not; and then more kindly, and smiling, 'All roads lead not down to the Plain, friend. 'What road then farest thou away from us? said the goodwife. 'The way of my will, he answered. 'And what way is that? said she; 'take heed, lest I get a longing to know.
For it was a custom with many of the kindreds that the goodwife should fare to her father's house to lie in with her first babe, and the day of her coming home was made a great feast in the house. So then Face-of-god cried out: 'Hail to thee, O Warcliff! Shrewd is the wind this morning, and thou dost well to heed it carefully, this thine orchard, this thy garden, this thy fair apple-tree!
To a good hall thou wendest, and the Wine of Increase shall be sweet there this even. Then smiled Warcliff all across his face, and the goodwife hung her head and reddened. Said the goodman: 'Wilt thou not be with us, son of the Alderman, as surely thy father shall be? 'Nay, said Face-of-god, 'though I were fain of it: my own matters carry me away.
Then one after other the goodmen of the Dale came and gave their word for fellowship in arms with the Men of Shadowy Vale, if there were such as Face-of-god had said, which they doubted not; and amongst them that spake were Fox of Nethertown, and Warwell, and Gritgarth, and Bearswain, and Warcliff, and Hart of Highcliff, and Worm of Willowholm, and Bullsbane, and Highneb of the Marsh: all these were stout men-at-arms and men of good counsel.
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