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"Though I scarce understand this high, middle
and low."
"By my hilt! you would understand it if you were Jacques
Bonhomme. The low justice means that you may fleece him, and the
middle that you may torture him, and the high that you may slay
him. That is about the truth of it. But this is the letter
which I am to take; and since the platter is clean it is time
that we trussed up and were afoot. You come with me, mon gros
Jean; and as to you, little one, where did you say that you
journeyed?"
"To Minstead."
"Ah, yes. I know this forest country well, though I was born
myself in the Hundred of Easebourne, in the Rape of Chichester,
hard by the village of Midhurst. Yet I have not a word to say
against the Hampton men, for there are no better comrades or
truer archers in the whole Company than some who learned to loose
the string in these very parts. We shall travel round with you
to Minstead lad, seeing that it is little out of our way."
"I am ready," said Alleyne, right pleased at the thought of such
company upon the road.


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