If the old man who goes by that name be indeed he, he must be nigh upon fourscore and ten.

But I have long doubted what no man else doubts.

I believe not that yon gray-beard is Robin; I believe that it is another who masquerades in old man's garb, but has the strength and hardihood of youth beneath that garb and that air of age." "Marry! yet how can that be ?" "It might not be so hard as thou deemest.

In our tribe our men resemble each other closely, and have the same tricks of voice and speech.

Nay, it was whispered that many of the youths were in very truth sons to Robin; and one of these so far favoured him that they were ever together, and he was treated in all ways like a son.
Miriam loved him as though he had been her own.