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The Tavern Knight

CHAPTER XXV
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"The gentleman shall be warned.

Is a woman to run away from her husband in my house, and the husband never be warned of it ?" "I promised her," he began.
"What care I for your promises ?" she asked.

"I will tell him, so that he may yet go after her and bring her back." "You shall not," he insisted, gripping her more closely.

But at that moment a delicately mocking voice greeted their ears.
"Marry, 'tis vastly diverting to hear you," it said.

They looked round, to find one of the party of town sparks that had halted at the inn standing arms akimbo in the narrow passage, clearly waiting for them to make room.


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