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The White Company

CHAPTER XVIII
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And indeed to watch him dallying with a little gobbet of bread, or sipping his cup of thrice-watered wine, is enough to make a man feel shame at his own hunger.

Yet war and glory, my good friend, though well enough in their way, will not serve to tighten such a belt as clasps my waist." "How read you that coat which hangs over yonder galley, Alleyne ?" asked Sir Nigel.
"Argent, a bend vert between cotises dancette gules." "It is a northern coat.

I have seen it in the train of the Percies.

From the shields, there is not one of these vessels which hath not knight or baron aboard.

I would mine eyes were better.


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