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The White Company

CHAPTER XVIII
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How read you this upon the left ?" "Argent and azure, a barry wavy of six." "Ha, it is the sign of the Wiltshire Stourtons! And there beyond I see the red and silver of the Worsleys of Apuldercombe, who like myself are of Hampshire lineage.

Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.

By St.
Paul! it would be a very strange thing if so noble a company were to gather without some notable deed of arms arising from it.

And here is our boat, Sir Oliver, so it seems best to me that we should go to the abbey with our squires, leaving Master Hawtayne to have his own way in the unloading." The horses both of knights and squires were speedily lowered into a broad lighter, and reached the shore almost as soon as their masters.
Sir Nigel bent his knee devoutly as he put foot on land, and taking a small black patch from his bosom he bound it tightly over his left eye.
"May the blessed George and the memory of my sweet lady-love raise high my heart!" quoth he.

"And as a token I vow that I will not take this patch from my eye until I have seen something of this country of Spain, and done such a small deed as it lies in me to do.


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