[Friends, though divided by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookFriends, though divided CHAPTER VI 19/21
In your case it is different, for as you have been long an apprentice, and as your face will be entirely unknown to any of them, there will be little chance of your being detected." "I would much rather go with you to Oxford," the lad said.
"I am weary of velvets and silks, and though I do not know that wars and battles will be more to my taste, I would fain try them also.
You are a gentleman, and high in the trust of the king and those around him.
If you will take me with you as your servant I will be a faithful knave to you, and doubt not that as you profit by your advantages, some of the good will fall to my share also." "In faith," Harry said, "I should hardly like you to be my servant, Jacob, although I have no other office to bestow at present.
But if you come with me you shall be rather in the light of a major-domo, though I have no establishment of which you can be the head.
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