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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER XII
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Is there no Christian woman who would give a poor creature rest in her cowhouse or barn for one night?
I will be gone with early daybreak.

I will repay her richly.
I have gold; and I will repay you, too, if you will take me where I may be safe from that wild reveller, and from the followers of that dark baron, in whose eye was death." "Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress," said Henry, "and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing, and tabouring, and toe tripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.

I tell you plainly, mistress, I am not to be fooled.

I am ready to take you to any place of safety you can name, for my promise is as strong as an iron shackle.

But you cannot persuade me that you do not know what earth to make for.


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