Holy mother! I have a mind to ride straight back to Havant, to show them how stout a man-at-arms hath been reared amongst them.' 'It is steel of proof,' Sir Jacob remarked; 'a pistol-bullet might glance from it.

And you,' he continued, turning to me, 'here is a small gift by which you shall remember this meeting.

I did observe that you did cast a wistful eye upon my bookshelf.

It is Plutarch's lives of the ancient worthies, done into English by the ingenious Mr.Latimer.

Carry this volume with you, and shape your life after the example of the giant men whose deeds are here set forth.