[The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Black Arrow CHAPTER VI--TO THE DAY'S END 13/16
For all that wherein you have so excellently served and helped me--not for the form, but from the heart, I thank you. Fare ye right well." "Well, lad," returned Dick, taking the hand which was offered him, "good speed to you, if speed you may.
But I misdoubt it shrewdly.
Y' are too disputatious." So then they separated for the second time; and presently it was Dick who was running after Matcham. "Here," he said, "take my cross-bow; shalt not go unarmed." "A cross-bow!" said Matcham.
"Nay, boy, I have neither the strength to bend nor yet the skill to aim with it.
It were no help to me, good boy. But yet I thank you." The night had now fallen, and under the trees they could no longer read each other's face. "I will go some little way with you," said Dick.
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