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The Tavern Knight

CHAPTER XXVI
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Your wound, sir, renders it impossible for me to ask you to give yourself the fatigue of obliging me.

I come, then, to propose that you return me those trinkets against my note of hand for the amount that was staked on them.

I am well known in town, sir," he added hurriedly, "and you need have no anxiety." Crispin stopped him with a wave of the hand.
"I have none, sir, in that connexion, and I am willing to do as you suggest." He thrust his hand into his pocket, and drew forth the rings, the brooch and the ear-ring he had won.

"Here, sir, are your trinkets." "Sir," cried Mr.Foster, thrown into some confusion by Galliard's unquestioning generosity, "I am indebted to you.

Rat me, sir, I am indeed.


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