I warrant you would have given as hard knocks as you got, and would have held your own there, as well as you did many a time in the fights in the Cloisters.
"Let us go and lie down under the shade of that tree, there.

It used to be our favourite bank, you know, in hot weather; and you shall ask as many questions as you like, and I will answer as best I can." "And be sure, Philip, to bring all your friends in to supper," John Fletcher said.

"I warrant your mother will find plenty for them to eat.

She never used to have any difficulty about that, in the old times; and I don't suppose their appetites are sharper, now, than they were then." Philip spent six months at home.

A few days after his return many of the country gentry, who had not known John Fletcher, called on Philip, as one who had achieved a reputation that did honour to the county--for every detail of the Huguenot struggle had been closely followed, in England; and more than one report had been brought over, by emigres, of the bravery of a young Englishman who was held in marked consideration by Admiral Coligny, and had won a name for himself, even among the nobles and gentlemen who rode with that dashing officer De La Noue, whose fame was second only to that of the Admiral.