I hoped you had a hankering that way when I saw you look so curiously at the cross-bow ere you discharged it.' 'Was it then charged, my lord ?' 'Indeed, as it happened, it was.

A great steel-headed arrow lay in the groove.

I ought to have taken that away when I bent it.

Some passing horseman may have carried it with him in the body of his plunging steed.' 'Oh, my lord!' cried Dorothy, aghast.
'Pray, do not be alarmed, cousin: I but jested.

Had anything happened, we should have heard of it.