`` My lord duke , '' said one of his attendants , `` is your grace not weary of exposing his dear life unneedfully ? Why tarry we here ? '' `` Catesby , '' returned the duke , `` here is the battle , not elsewhere . The rest are but feigned onslaughts . Here must we vanquish . And for the exposure -- if ye were an ugly hunchback , and the children gecked at you upon the street , ye would count your body cheaper , and an hour of glory worth a life . Howbeit , if ye will , let us ride on and visit the other posts . Sir Richard here , my namesake , he shall still hold this entry , where he wadeth to the ankles in hot blood . Him can we trust . But mark it , Sir Richard , ye are not yet done . The worst is yet to ward . Sleep not . '' He came right up to young Shelton , looking him hard in the eyes , and taking his hand in both of his , gave it so extreme a squeeze that the blood had nearly spurted . Dick quailed before his eyes . The insane excitement , the courage , and the cruelty that he read therein filled him with dismay about the future . This young duke 's was indeed a gallant spirit , to ride foremost in the ranks of war ; but after the battle , in the days of peace and in the circle of his trusted friends , that mind , it was to be dreaded , would continue to bring forth the fruits of death . CHAPTER III -- THE BATTLE OF SHOREBY -LRB- Concluded -RRB- Dick , once more left to his own counsels , began to look about him . The arrow-shot had somewhat slackened . On all sides the enemy were falling back ; and the greater part of the market-place was now left empty , the snow here trampled into orange mud , there splashed with gore , scattered all over with dead men and horses , and bristling thick with feathered arrows . On his own side the loss had been cruel .
The jaws of the little street and the ruins of the barricade were heaped with the dead and dying ; and out of the hundred men with whom he had begun the battle , there were not seventy XXXXX who could still stand to arms .
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