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Chapter 40

           "Rise,myfriends,"saidRichard,inagracioustone,lookingonthemwithacountenanceinwhichhishabitualgood-humourhadalreadyconqueredtheblazeofhastyresentment,andwhosefeaturesretainednomarkofthelatedesperateconflict,exceptingtheflusharisingfromexertion,"Arise,"hesaid,"myfriends!Yourmisdemeanours,whetherinforestorfield,havebeenatonedbytheloyalservicesyourenderedmydistressedsubjectsbeforethewallsofTorquilstone,andtherescueyouhavethisdayaffordedtoyoursovereign.Arise,myliegemen,andbegoodsubjectsinfuture.Andthou,braveLocksley"

           "CallmenolongerLocksley,myLiege,butknowmeunderthename,which,Ifear,famehathblowntoowidelynottohavereachedevenyourroyalearsIamRobinHoodofSherwoodForest."

           "KingofOutlaws,andPrinceofgoodfellows!"saidtheKing,"whohathnotheardanamethathasbeenborneasfarasPalestine?Butbeassured,braveOutlaw,thatnodeeddoneinourabsence,andintheturbulenttimestowhichithathgivenrise,shallberememberedtothydisadvantage."

           "Truesaystheproverb,"saidWamba,interposinghisword,butwithsomeabatementofhisusualpetulance,

           "‘Whenthecatisaway,

           Themicewillplay.’"

           "What,Wamba,artthouthere?"saidRichard;"Ihavebeensolongofhearingthyvoice,Ithoughtthouhadsttakenflight."

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