squalling bastard's throat!" And then I must have swooned."
Kenneth shuddered.
"My God, how horrible!" he cried. "But you were avenged, Sir
had not heard Kenneth's exclamation, "the cottage was in
deed. What I did I know not. I have tried to urge my memory
miracle I crawled forth, I cannot tell; but in the morning I
paces from the blackened ruins of the cottage, as near death as
before I was restored to any semblance of my former self, and
that same joyous, vigorous lad, who had set out, fowling-piece
my hair, as much as there is now, though I was but twenty-one;
twice my years. It was to my faithful servant that I owed my
gratitude towards him on that score.
"So soon as I had regained sufficient strength, I went secretly
father I found much aged by grief, but he was kind and tender
were gone to France; it would seem they had thought it better
Paris, and hither I determined forthwith to follow them.
rather: to bear my story to the King at Whitehall and seek.
counsel, but I burned to take my vengeance with my own hands,
be embroiled in a rough-and-tumble in the streets, and by an
have sent whither I am going to-morrow. The affair was like to
have prolonged it, I was sent instead to the galleys on the
already I had endured, I should become a galley-slave!
"For twelve long years I toiled at an oar, and waited. If I
those that had wrecked my life - my body and my soul. I did
came to throw my sword into the balance on the King's side: I
the castle in usurping hands - in the hands of my enemies. My
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