De Aquila rode with him as far as the New Mill landward . We thought the night had been all a dream . ' ` But did he make it right with the King ? ' Dan asked . ` About your not being traitors , I mean . ' Sir Richard smiled . ` The King sent no second summons to Pevensey , nor did he ask why De Aquila had not obeyed the first . Yes , that was Fulke 's work . I know not how he did it , but it was well and swiftly done . ' ` Then you did n't do anything to his son ? ' said Una . ` The boy ? Oh , he was an imp ! He turned the keep doors out of dortoirs while we had him . He sang foul songs , learned in the Barons ' camps -- poor fool ; he set the hounds fighting in Hall ; he lit the rushes to drive out , as he said , the fleas ; he drew his dagger on Jehan , who threw him down the stairway for it ; and he rode his horse through crops and among sheep . But when we had beaten him , and showed him wolf and deer , he followed us old men like a young , eager hound , and called us `` uncle '' . His father came the summer 's end to take him away , but the boy had no lust to go , because of the otter-hunting , and he stayed on till the fox-hunting . I gave him a bittern 's claw to bring him good luck at shooting . An imp , if ever there was ! ' ` And what happened to Gilbert ? '
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