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Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage
ThenstraightwayLittleJohnandWillStutelycameleapingandstooduponeithersideofRobinHood,andquicklydrewtheirbroadswords,thewhileamightyvoicerolledovertheheadsofall,"HerebeI,goodmaster,whenthouwantestme";foritwasFriarTuckthatsocalledfromtheorganloft.
Andnowallwashubbubandnoise.StoutEdwardstrodeforwardraging,andwouldhaveseizedhisdaughtertodragheraway,butLittleJohnsteppedbetweenandthrusthimback."Standback,oldman,"saidhe,"thouartahobbledhorsethisday."
"Downwiththevillains!"criedSirStephen,andfeltforhissword,butithungnotbesidehimonhisweddingday.
Thenthemen-at-armsdrewtheirswords,anditseemedlikethatbloodwouldwetthestones;butsuddenlycameabustleatthedoorandloudvoices,steelflashedinthelight,andthecrashofblowssounded.Themen-at-armsfellback,anduptheaislecameleapingeighteenstoutyeomenallcladinLincolngreen,withAllanaDaleattheirhead.InhishandheboreRobinHood’sgoodstouttrustybowofyew,andthishegavetohim,kneelingthewhileupononeknee.
ThenupspakeEdwardofDeirwoldinadeepvoiceofanger,"Isitthou,AllanaDale,thathathbredallthiscoilinachurch?"
"Nay,"quothmerryRobin,"thathaveIdone,andIcarenotwhoknowethit,formynameisRobinHood."
Atthisnameasuddensilencefell.
