`` Go to ! '' she interrupted ; `` ye are too full of catches . In honour do ye belong to me , till ye have paid the evil ? '' `` In honour , I do , '' said Dick . `` Hear , then , '' she continued ; `` Ye would make but a sad friar , methinks ; and since I am to dispose of you at pleasure , I will even take you for my husband . Nay , now , no words ! '' cried she . `` They will avail you nothing . For see how just it is , that you who deprived me of one home , should supply me with another . And as for Joanna , she will be the first , believe me , to commend the change ; for , after all , as we be dear friends , what matters it with which of us ye wed ? Not one whit ! '' `` Madam , '' said Dick , `` I will go into a cloister , an ye please to bid me ; but to wed with anyone in this big world besides Joanna Sedley is what I will consent to neither for man 's force nor yet for lady 's pleasure . Pardon me if I speak my plain thoughts plainly ; but where a maid is very bold , a poor man must even be the bolder . '' `` Dick , '' she said , `` ye sweet boy , ye must come and kiss me for that word . Nay , fear not , ye shall kiss me for Joanna ; and when we meet , I shall give it back to her , and say I stole it . And as for what ye owe me , why , dear simpleton , methinks ye were not alone in that great battle ; and even if York be on the throne , it was not you that set him there . But for a good , sweet , honest heart , Dick , y ' are all that ; and if I could find it in my soul to envy your Joanna anything , I would even envy her your love . '' CHAPTER VI -- NIGHT IN THE WOODS -LRB- concluded -RRB- : DICK AND JOAN The horses had by this time finished the small store of provender , and fully breathed from their fatigues . At Dick 's command , the fire was smothered in snow ; and while his men got once more wearily to saddle , he himself , remembering , somewhat late , true woodland caution , chose a tall oak and nimbly clambered to the topmost fork . Hence he could look far abroad on the moonlit and snow-paven forest .
On the south-west , dark against the horizon , stood those upland , heathy quarters where he and XXXXX had met with the terrifying misadventure of the leper .
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