Howbeit , if ye will , let us ride on and visit the other posts . Sir Richard here , my namesake , he shall still hold this entry , where he wadeth to the ankles in hot blood . Him can we trust . But mark it , Sir Richard , ye are not yet done . The worst is yet to ward . Sleep not . '' He came right up to young Shelton , looking him hard in the eyes , and taking his hand in both of his , gave it so extreme a squeeze that the blood had nearly spurted . Dick quailed before his eyes . The insane excitement , the courage , and the cruelty that he read therein filled him with dismay about the future . This young duke 's was indeed a gallant spirit , to ride foremost in the ranks of war ; but after the battle , in the days of peace and in the circle of his trusted friends , that mind , it was to be dreaded , would continue to bring forth the fruits of death . CHAPTER III -- THE BATTLE OF SHOREBY -LRB- Concluded -RRB- Dick , once more left to his own counsels , began to look about him . The arrow-shot had somewhat slackened . On all sides the enemy were falling back ; and the greater part of the market-place was now left empty , the snow here trampled into orange mud , there splashed with gore , scattered all over with dead men and horses , and bristling thick with feathered arrows . On his own side the loss had been cruel . The jaws of the little street and the ruins of the barricade were heaped with the dead and dying ; and out of the hundred men with whom he had begun the battle , there were not seventy left who could still stand to arms . At the same time , the day was passing . The first reinforcements might be looked for to arrive at any moment ; and the Lancastrians , already shaken by the result of their desperate but unsuccessful onslaught , were in an ill temper to support a fresh invader . There was a dial in the wall of one of the two flanking houses ; and this , in the frosty winter sunshine , indicated ten of the forenoon . Dick turned to the man who was at his elbow , a little insignificant archer , binding a cut in his arm . `` It was well fought , '' he said , `` and , by my sooth , they will not charge us twice . ''
`` Sir , '' XXXXX the little archer , `` ye have fought right well for York , and better for yourself .
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