to his face and peace to his heart but you said there have been changes with you also why should not the workman carry his tools where are bow and sword and cap � and why so warlike john it is a game which friend hath been a me and i found him an over apt pupil grumbled the he hath stripped me as though i had fallen into the hands of the but by my you must render them back to me lest you bring upon my mission and i will pay you for them at s prices take them back man and never heed the pay said john i did but wish to learn the feel of them since i am like to have to my own for some years to come ma foi he was bom for a free companion cried he hath the very trick of speech and turn of thought i take them back then and indeed it gives me not to feel my tapping against my but see on this side of the church rises the square and tower of earl s castle and even from here i seem to see on yonder banner the red of the bed upon white aid his eyes but whether or no is more than i could how black is the great tower and how bright the gleam of arms upon the wall see below the flag how it like a star aye it is the steel head piece of the remarked the but we must on if we are to be there before the rises at the for it is likely that sir being so renowned a soldier may keep hard discipline within the walls and let no man enter after so saying he quickened his pace and the three comrades were soon close to the straggling and broad spread town which round the noble church and the frowning castle it chanced on that very evening that sir having before sunset as was his custom and having himself seen that and his two with the thirteen the five my lady s three and the great gray had all their needs supplied had taken his dogs for an evening sixty or seventy of them large and small smooth and shaggy � deer hound hound blood hound wolf hound � snapping yelling and with score of tongues and waving tails came down the narrow w which leads from the to tb of two with loud and walked deep amid the swarm guiding and behind came sir himself with lady upon his arm the pair walking slowly and as both their age and their condition while they watched with a smile in their eyes the crowd in front of them they paused however at the bridge and leaning their elbows upon the stone work they stood looking down at their own faces in the stream and at the swift flash of against the gravel sir was a slight man of poor stature with soft voice and gentle ways so short was he that his wife who was no very tall woman had the better of him by the breadth of three fingers his sight having been injured in his early wars by a of lime which had been emptied over him when he led the earl of s up the breach at he had contracted something of a stoop with a peering expression of face his age was six and forty but the constant practice of arms together with a life had preserved his activity and endurance so that from a distance he seemed to have the slight limbs and swift e of a boy his face however was of a dull yellow tint with a look which spoke of rough out door doings and the little pointed beard which he wore in deference to the prevailing fashion was and shot with gray his features were small delicate and regular with clear cut nose and eyes which forward from the his dress was simple and yet a hat of bearing in the band the token of our lady of was drawn low upon the left side to hide that ear which had been partly from his head by a man at arms in a camp before his or and trunk were of a purple color with long which hung from either sleeve to below bis his shoes were pf red leather pointed at the toes but not yet prolonged to the extravagant which the succeeding reign was to bring into fashion a gold embroidered belt of encircled his with his arms five roses on a field worked upon the clasp so stood sir upon the bridge of and talked lightly with his lady and had the two alone been seen and the stranger been asked which were the more likely to belong to the bold warrior whose name was loved by the of europe he had assuredly selected the lady s her face was large and square and red with fierce thick brows and the eyes of one who was accustomed to rule taller and broader than her husband her flowing gown of and fur lined could not conceal the gaunt and outlines of her figure it was the age of martial women the deeds of black of of lady and of the of were still fresh in the public mind with such examples before them the wives of the english captains had become as warlike as their mates and ordered the castles in their absence with the prudence and discipline of easy were the of their castle of and little had they to dread from or french while lady mary had the ordering of it yet even in that age it was thought that though a lady might have a soldier s heart it was scarce as well that she should have a soldier s face there were men who said that of all the stem passages and daring 