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VII. HOW NIGEL WENT MARKETING TO GUILDFORD
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It was on a bright June morning that young Nigel, with youth and springtime to make his heart light, rode upon his errand from Tilford to Guildford town. Beneath him was his great yellow warhorse, caracoling and curveting as he went, as blithe1 and free of spirit as his master. In all England one would scarce have found upon that morning so high-mettled and so debonair2 a pair. The sandy road wound through groves4 of fir, where the breeze came soft and fragrant5 with resinous6 gums, or over heathery downs, which rolled away to north and to south, vast and untenanted, for on the uplands the soil was poor and water scarce. Over Crooksbury Common he passed, and then across the great Heath of Puttenham, following a sandy path which wound amid the bracken and the heather, for he meant to strike the Pilgrims' Way where it turned eastward8 from Farnham and from Seale. As he rode he continually felt his saddle-bag with his hand, for in it, securely strapped10, he had placed the precious treasures of the Lady Ermyntrude. As he saw the grand tawny11 neck tossing before him, and felt the easy heave of the great horse and heard the muffled12 drumming of his hoofs13, he could have sung and shouted with the joy of living.
Behind him, upon the little brown pony14 which had been Nigel's former mount, rode Samkin Aylward the bowman, who had taken upon himself the duties of personal attendant and body-guard. His great shoulders and breadth of frame seemed dangerously top-heavy upon the tiny steed, but he
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