`` He hath well served the cause . '' `` It likes me well , '' said Richard . `` Let them be wedded speedily . Say , fair maid , will you wed ? '' `` My lord duke , '' said Alicia , `` so as the man is straight '' -- And there , in a perfect consternation , the voice died on her tongue . `` He is straight , my mistress , '' replied Richard , calmly . `` I am the only crookback of my party ; we are else passably well shapen . Ladies , and you , my lord , '' he added , with a sudden change to grave courtesy , `` judge me not too churlish if I leave you . A captain , in the time of war , hath not the ordering of his hours . '' 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 XXXXX with courtship .
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