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The Cloister and the Hearth

CHAPTER XXIV
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They do put old heads on young men's shoulders.

'Bon loup mauvais compagnon, dit le brebis;' and a soldier, they say, is near akin to a wolf." "They lie," said Denys; "besides, if he is, 'les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux.'" "Aye but, sir soldier, I am not a wolf; and thou knowest, a bien petite occasion se saisit le loup du mouton.'" "Let us drop wolves and sheep, being men; my meaning is, that a good soldier never pillages-a comrade.

Come, young man, too much suspicion becomes not your years.

They who travel should learn to read faces; methinks you might see lealty in mine sith I have seen it in yourn.

Is it yon fat purse at your girdle you fear for ?" (Gerard turned pale.) "Look hither!" and he undid his belt, and poured out of it a double handful of gold pieces, then returned them to their hiding-place.
"There is a hostage for you," said he; "carry you that, and let us be comrades," and handed him his belt, gold and all.
Gerard stared.


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