'Or what fiend wouldst thou raise to-night ?' 'I would lay one rather,' returned lord Herbert.

'But first I would discover this same perilous fault in the armour of my house.

Is thy genet still in thy control, Dorothy ?' 'I have no reason to think otherwise, my lord.

The frolicker he, the merrier ever was I.' 'Darest thou ride him alone in the moonlight--outside the walls.' 'I dare anything on Dick's back--that Dick can do, my lord.' 'Doth thy dog know Caspar--in friendly fashion, I mean ?' 'Caspar is the only one in the castle he is quite friendly with, my lord.' 'Then is all as I would have it.

And now I will tell thee what I would not have: I would not have a soul in the place but my lady here know that I am searching with thee after this dog-and-man hole.