`` Say ye so , Sir William ? '' cried Lord Foxham . `` I did myself , and for good service , dub him knight , '' said Gloucester . `` He hath twice manfully served me . It is not valour of hands , it is a man 's mind of iron , that he lacks . He will not rise , Lord Foxham . 'T is a fellow that will fight indeed bravely in a mellay , but hath a capon 's heart . Howbeit , if he is to marry , marry him in the name of Mary , and be done ! '' `` Nay , he is a brave lad -- I know it , '' said Lord Foxham . `` Content ye , then , Sir Richard . I have compounded this affair with Master Hamley , and to-morrow ye shall wed. '' Whereupon Dick judged it prudent to withdraw ; but he was not yet clear of the refectory , when a man , but newly alighted at the gate , came running four stairs at a bound , and , brushing through the abbey servants , threw himself on one knee before the duke . `` Victory , my lord , '' he cried . And before Dick had got to the chamber set apart for him as Lord Foxham 's guest , the troops in the holm were cheering around their fires ; for upon that same day , not twenty miles away , a second crushing blow had been dealt to the power of Lancaster . CHAPTER VII -- DICK 'S REVENGE The next morning Dick was afoot before the sun , and having dressed himself to the best advantage with the aid of the Lord Foxham 's baggage , and got good reports of Joan , he set forth on foot to walk away his impatience . For some while he made rounds among the soldiery , who were getting to arms in the wintry twilight of the dawn and by the red glow of torches ; but gradually he strolled further afield , and at length passed clean beyond the outposts , and walked alone in the frozen forest , waiting for the sun . His thoughts were both quiet and happy . His brief favour with the Duke he could not find it in his heart to mourn ; with Joan to wife , and my Lord Foxham for a faithful patron , he looked most happily upon the future ; and in the past he found but little to regret . As he thus strolled and pondered , the solemn light of the morning grew more clear , the east was already coloured by the sun , and a little scathing wind blew up the frozen snow . He turned to go home ; but even as he turned , his eye lit upon a figure behind , a tree . `` Stand ! ''
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