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CHAPTER V—EARL RISINGHAM
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Earl Risingham, although by far the most important person then in Shoreby, was poorly lodged1 in the house of a private gentleman upon the extreme outskirts2 of the town. Nothing but the armed men at the doors, and the mounted messengers that kept arriving and departing, announced the temporary residence of a great lord.
Thus it was that, from lack of space, Dick and Lawless were clapped into the same apartment.
“Well spoken, Master Richard,” said the outlaw3; “it was excellently well spoken, and, for my part, I thank you cordially. Here we are in good hands; we shall be justly tried, and, some time this evening, decently hanged on the same tree.”
“Indeed, my poor friend, I do believe it,” answered Dick.
“Yet have we a string to our bow,” returned Lawless. “Ellis Duckworth is a man out of ten thousand; he holdeth you right near his heart, both for your own and for your father’s sake; and knowing you guiltless of this fact, he will stir earth and heaven to bear you clear.”
“It may not be,” said Dick. “What can he do? He hath but a handful. Alack, if it were but to-morrow—could I but keep a certain tryst5 an hour before noon to-morrow—all were, I think, otherwise. But now there is no help.”
“Well,” concluded Lawless, “an ye will stand to it for my innocence6, I will stand to it for yours, and that stoutly7. It shall naught8 avail us; but an I be to hang, it shall not be for lack of swearing.”
And then, while Dick gave himself over to his reflections, the old rogue9 curled himself down into a corner, pulled his
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lodged
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outlaw
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| n.歹徒,亡命之徒;vt.宣布…为不合法 | |
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guilt
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innocence
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rogue
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hood
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musing
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consort
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skulking
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counterfeit
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slain
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traitors
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knight
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prosper
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