`` Why , well said ! '' he cried . `` Hast a shrewd tongue in thy mouth , go to ! I will forgive you for that merry word . Selden , see them fed , both man and brute . '' The knight re-entered the inn . `` Now , friend Dick , '' he said , `` fall to . Here is good ale and bacon . Eat , while that I read . '' Sir Daniel opened the packet , and as he read his brow darkened . When he had done he sat a little , musing . Then he looked sharply at his ward . `` Dick , '' said he , `` Y ' have seen this penny rhyme ? '' The lad replied in the affirmative . `` It bears your father 's name , '' continued the knight ; `` and our poor shrew of a parson is , by some mad soul , accused of slaying him . '' `` He did most eagerly deny it , '' answered Dick . `` He did ? '' cried the knight , very sharply . `` Heed him not . He has a loose tongue ; he babbles like a jack-sparrow .
Some day , when I may find the leisure , XXXXX , I will myself more fully inform you of these matters .
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