`` This favour of mine -- whereupon was it founded ? '' `` Upon your name , '' answered Catesby . `` It is my lord 's chief superstition . Were my name Richard , I should be an earl to-morrow . '' `` Well , sir , I thank you , '' returned Dick ; `` and since I am little likely to follow these great fortunes , I will even say farewell . I will not pretend I was displeased to think myself upon the road to fortune ; but I will not pretend , neither , that I am over-sorry to be done with it . Command and riches , they are brave things , to be sure ; but a word in your ear -- yon duke of yours , he is a fearsome lad . '' Catesby laughed . `` Nay , '' said he , `` of a verity he that rides with Crooked Dick will ride deep . Well , God keep us all from evil ! Speed ye well . '' Thereupon Dick put himself at the head of his men , and giving the word of command , rode off . He made straight across the town , following what he supposed to be the route of Sir Daniel , and spying around for any signs that might decide if he were right . The streets were strewn with the dead and the wounded , whose fate , in the bitter frost , was far the more pitiable . Gangs of the victors went from house to house , pillaging and stabbing , and sometimes singing together as they went . From different quarters , as he rode on , the sounds of violence and outrage came to young Shelton 's ears ; now the blows of the sledge-hammer on some barricaded door , and now the miserable shrieks of women . Dick 's heart had just been awakened . He had just seen the cruel consequences of his own behaviour ; and the thought of the sum of misery that was now acting in the whole of Shoreby filled him with despair . At length he reached the outskirts , and there , sure enough , he saw straight before him the same broad , beaten track across the snow that he had marked from the summit of the church . Here , then , he went the faster on ; but still , as he rode , he kept a bright eye upon the fallen men and horses that lay beside the track .
Many of these , he was relieved to see , wore Sir XXXXX 's colours , and the faces of some , who lay upon their back , he even recognised .
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