'
'I wish we were there, my lord!'
'I dare say you do: however, we must make the best of present
circumstances. I wanted to know, in the first place, whether you had
food; as for lodging, Mr. Baroni, I dare say, will manage something for
you; and if not, you had better quarter yourselves by the side of this
tent. With your own cloaks and mine, you will manage very well.'
'Thank you, my lord. We have brought your lordship's things with us. I
don't know what I shall do to-morrow about your lordship's boots. The
savages have got hold of the bottle of blacking and have been drinking
it like anything.'
'Never mind my boots,' said Tancred, 'we have got other things to think
of now.'
'I told them what it was,' said Freeman, 'but they went on just the
same.'
'Obstinate dogs!' said Tancred.
'I think they took it for wine, my lord,' said Trueman. 'I never see
such ignorant creatures.'
'You find now the advantage of a good education, Trueman.'
'Yes, my lord, we do, and feel very grateful to your lordship's honoured
mother for the same. When we came down out of the mountains and see
those blazing fires, if I didn't think they were going to burn us alive,
unless we changed our religion! I said the catechism as hard as I could
the whole way, and felt as much like a blessed martyr as could be.
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