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But Dame Upstill was looking on, and Richard therefore brought as much of the midnight as would obey orders, back over his countenance as he answered:

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Between the two, mistress Upstill began her search, which she made more thorough than agreeable.

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But she rode on unhurt, meditating how to secure Upstill when she got him to Wyfern, whither she doubted not he would follow her.

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Upstill would have knelt, in lack of other mode of petition strong enough to express the fervour of his desires for release, but

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'I tell thee, mistress Upstill, on the oath of a Christian woman, it is but a private letter of mine own, and beareth nothing upon affairs.

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'Cast-down Upstill, thou hast shamed thy regiment, carrying thyself thus to a gentlewoman,' said Richard.

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'I tell thee, mistress Upstill, on the oath of a Christian woman, it is but a private letter of mine own, and beareth nothing upon affairs.

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As she thus talked to her genet, Upstill again drew near, now more surly than at first.

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All this time Upstill and his party had been recounting with various embellishment their adventures both former and latter, and when Kaltoff was recognised, or at least suspected in the crowd, the rumour presently arose and spread that he was either the devil himself, or an accredited agent of that potentate.

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'Holy Mary!' cried dame Upstill, whose protestantism was of doubtful date, and thrust the paper into her own bosom.

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