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Chapter the Seventeenth
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I’ll seek for other aid — Spirits, they say,
Flit round invisible, as thick as motes1
Dance in the sunbeam. If that spell
Or necromancer’s sigil can compel them,
They shall hold council with me.
James Duff.
The reader’s attention must be recalled to Halbert Glendinning, who had left the Tower of Glendearg immediately after his quarrel with its new guest, Sir Piercie Shafton. As he walked with a rapid pace up the glen, Old Martin followed him, beseeching3 him to be less hasty.
“Halbert,” said the old man, “you will never live to have white hair, if you take fire thus at every spark of provocation4.”
“And why should I wish it, old man,” said Halbert, “if I am to be the butt5 that every fool may aim a shaft2 of scorn against? — What avails it, old man, that you yourself move, sleep, and wake, eat thy niggard meal, and repose6 on thy hard pallet? — Why art thou so well pleased that the morning should call thee up to daily toil7, and the evening again lay thee down a wearied-out wretch8? Were it not better sleep and wake no more, than to undergo this dull exchange of labour for insensibility and of insensibility for labour?”
“God help me,” answered Martin, “there may be truth in what thou sayest — but walk slower, for my old limbs cannot keep pace with your young legs — walk slower, and I will tell you why age, though unlovely, is yet endurable.”
“Speak on then,” said Halbert, slackening his pace, “but remember we must seek venison to refresh the fatigues
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providence
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knights
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contented
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