And with a very handsome salutation he passed on , followed by his officers . `` Alack , '' cried Alicia , `` I am shent ! '' `` Ye know him not , '' replied Lord Foxham . `` It is but a trifle ; he hath already clean forgot your words . '' `` He is , then , the very flower of knighthood , '' said Alicia . `` Nay , he but mindeth other things , '' returned Lord Foxham . `` Tarry we no more . '' In the chancel they found Dick waiting , attended by a few young men ; and there were he and Joan united . When they came forth again , happy and yet serious , into the frosty air and sunlight , the long files of the army were already winding forward up the road ; already the Duke of Gloucester 's banner was unfolded and began to move from before the abbey in a clump of spears ; and behind it , girt by steel-clad knights , the bold , black-hearted , and ambitious hunchback moved on towards his brief kingdom and his lasting infamy . But the wedding party turned upon the other side , and sat down , with sober merriment , to breakfast . The father cellarer attended on their wants , and sat with them at table . Hamley , all jealousy forgotten , began to ply the nowise loth Alicia with courtship . And there , amid the sounding of tuckets and the clash of armoured soldiery and horses continually moving forth , Dick and Joan sat side by side , tenderly held hands , and looked , with ever growing affection , in each other 's eyes . Thenceforth the dust and blood of that unruly epoch passed them by . They dwelt apart from alarms in the green forest where their love began . Two old men in the meanwhile enjoyed pensions in great prosperity and peace , and with perhaps a superfluity of ale and wine , in Tunstall hamlet . One had been all his life a shipman , and continued to the last to lament his man Tom . The other , who had been a bit of everything , turned in the end towards piety , and made a most religious death under the name of Brother Honestus in the neighbouring abbey . So Lawless had his will , and died a friar . Footnotes : -LCB- 1 -RCB- At the date of this story , Richard Crookback could not have been created Duke of Gloucester ; but for clearness , with the reader 's leave , he shall so be called .
-LCB- 2 -RCB- Richard XXXXX would have been really far younger at this date .
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