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Chapter 33

           "Wellthen,Jew,"saidAymer,"sinceImustneedsmeddleinthismatter,letmehavetheuseofthywriting-tabletsthough,holdratherthanusethypen,Iwouldfastfortwenty-fourhours,andwhereshallIfindone?"

           "IfyourholyscruplescandispensewithusingtheJew’stablets,forthepenIcanfindaremedy,"saidtheyeoman;and,bendinghisbow,heaimedhisshaftatawild-goosewhichwassoaringovertheirheads,theadvanced-guardofaphalanxofhistribe,whichwerewingingtheirwaytothedistantandsolitaryfensofHolderness.Thebirdcameflutteringdown,transfixedwiththearrow.

           "There,Prior,"saidtheCaptain,"arequillsenowtosupplyallthemonksofJorvaulxforthenexthundredyears,antheytakenottowritingchronicles."

           ThePriorsatdown,andatgreatleisureinditedanepistletoBriandeBois-Guilbert,andhavingcarefullysealedupthetablets,deliveredthemtotheJew,saying,"Thiswillbethysafe-conducttothePreceptoryofTemplestowe,and,asIthink,ismostlikelytoaccomplishthedeliveryofthydaughter,ifitbewellbackedwithproffersofadvantageandcommodityatthineownhand;for,trustmewell,thegoodKnightBois-Guilbertisoftheirconfraternitythatdonoughtfornought."

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