`` Fair maid , '' he said , affecting easiness , `` suffer me to kiss your hand , in token ye forgive my roughness , and I will even go . '' `` Y ' are a strange monk , young sir , '' returned the young lady , looking him both boldly and shrewdly in the face ; `` and now that my first astonishment hath somewhat passed away , I can spy the layman in each word you utter . What do ye here ? Why are ye thus sacrilegiously tricked out ? Come ye in peace or war ? And why spy ye after Lady Brackley like a thief ? '' `` Madam , '' quoth Dick , `` of one thing I pray you to be very sure : I am no thief . And even if I come here in war , as in some degree I do , I make no war upon fair maids , and I hereby entreat them to copy me so far , and to leave me be . For , indeed , fair mistress , cry out -- if such be your pleasure -- cry but once , and say what ye have seen , and the poor gentleman before you is merely a dead man . I can not think ye would be cruel , '' added Dick ; and taking the girl 's hand gently in both of his , he looked at her with courteous admiration . `` Are ye , then , a spy -- a Yorkist ? '' asked the maid . `` Madam , '' he replied , `` I am indeed a Yorkist , and , in some sort , a spy . But that which bringeth me into this house , the same which will win for me the pity and interest of your kind heart , is neither of York nor Lancaster . I will wholly put my life in your discretion . I am a lover , and my name -- '' But here the young lady clapped her hand suddenly upon Dick 's mouth , looked hastily up and down and east and west , and , seeing the coast clear , began to drag the young man , with great strength and vehemence , up-stairs . `` Hush ! '' she said , `` and come ! Shalt talk hereafter . '' Somewhat bewildered , Dick suffered himself to be pulled up-stairs , bustled along a corridor , and thrust suddenly into a chamber , lit , like so many of the others , by a blazing log upon the hearth .
`` Now , '' XXXXX the young lady , forcing him down upon a stool , `` sit ye there and attend my sovereign good pleasure .
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