I deemed his word inviolate, and now he has broken it." "Do not judge Sir Max too harshly," said Castleman; "you may wrong him.
I do not at all understand the absence of our friends.

Grote tells me they went to the river one night to bathe and did not return.

Their horses and arms are at the inn.

Their squires, who had left them two hours before, have not been seen since.

Grote has heard nothing of our friends that will throw light on their whereabouts.