[Fair Margaret by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookFair Margaret CHAPTER VII 5/16
Or, rather, I bring you what is your own, or at the least your father's.
I bargained with his Excellency Don de Ayala, pointing out that fifty gold angels were too much to pay for that dead rogue of his; but he would give me nothing back in money, since with gold he never parts.
Yet I won some change from him, and it stands without your door.
It is a Spanish jennet of the true Moorish blood, which, hundreds of years ago, that people brought with them from the East.
He needs it no longer, as he returns to Spain, and it is trained to bear a lady." Margaret did not know what to answer, but, fortunately, at that moment her father appeared, and to him d'Aguilar repeated his tale, adding that he had heard his daughter say that the horse she rode had fallen with her, so that she could use it no more. Now, Castell did not wish to accept this gift, for such he felt it to be; but d'Aguilar assured him that if he did not he must sell it and return him the price in money, as it did not belong to him.
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