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The Cloister and the Hearth

CHAPTER XVI
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The man that had the candle got clear away, and all the rest fell upon Martin, and after a long and fierce struggle, in the course of which they were more than once all rolling on the floor, with Martin in the middle, they succeeded in mastering the old Samson, and binding him hand and foot with a rope they had brought for Gerard.
Martin groaned aloud.

He saw the man had made his way to Margaret's room during the struggle, and here was he powerless.
"Ay, grind your teeth, you old rogue," said Dierich, panting with the struggle.

"You shan't use them." "It is my belief, mates, that our lives were scarce safe while this old fellow's bones were free." "He makes me think this Gerard is not far off," put in another.
"No such luck," replied Dierich.

"Hallo, mates.

Jorian Ketel is a long time in that girl's bedroom.


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