Let me serve you freely." "Well," said I, "you will be my only servant when once I leave King Carl's train, with which I have come." "So much the better," he said.

"I am likely to be as handy a servant as you can find, in most things." "Oh," said Werbode, laughing, "take him, Wilfrid.

Free service is not to be despised.

Moreover, if you want any one well and soundly beaten, here is your man." "I can keep the thane's back at a pinch, young sir," said the Dane quietly.

"That mayhap is more than most will do if they are hired." "Faith, I believe you could," said Werbode, looking the man's wiry frame up and down.
"Take him, Wilfrid." "Why, then," said I, "so I will, and gladly, for just so long as I please you as a master.