num_pages: 396
description: "By my hilt!" cried the other, "if you were to cross the narrow sea you would find them as thick as bees at a tee-hole. Couldst not shoot a bolt down any street of Bordeaux, I warrant, but you would pink archer, squire, or knight. There are more breastplates than gabardines to be seen, I promise you." -- "And where got you all these pretty things?" asked Hordle John, pointing at the heap in the corner. -- "Where there is as much more waiting for any brave lad to pick it up. Where a good man can always earn a good wage, and where he need look upon no man as his paymaster, but just reach his hand out and help himself. Aye, it is a goodly and a proper life. And here I drink to mine old comrades, and the saints be with them! Arouse all together, me, enfants, under pain of my displeasure. To Sir Claude Latour and the White Company!"
language: English
title: The White Company
titlecomplete: The White Company
characters: Samkin Aylward, John of Hordle, Alleyne Edricson, Sir Nigel Loring
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Literature, Classics, Medieval, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 4358
places: England, France, Spain
series: Sir Nigel and the White Company
publisher: Wildside Press