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The Black Arrow

PROLOGUE--JOHN AMEND-ALL
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I shall keep you, Bennet.

I must have a good man to rest me on in this day of black arrows.

'The arrow that flieth by day,' saith the evangel; I have no mind of the context; nay, I am a sluggard priest, I am too deep in men's affairs.

Well, let us ride forth, Master Hatch.

The jackmen should be at the church by now." So they rode forward down the road, with the wind after them, blowing the tails of the parson's cloak; and behind them, as they went, clouds began to arise and blot out the sinking sun.


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