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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: knaves in grain and spirit which usually collected at the door of an inn of those days, either to welcome coming or speed the parting guest. CHAPTER III. The morning, which had opened unfavourably, made good all its promises of evil. Every moment the clouds overhead became darker, and the rain poured down in torrents; and for nearly a couple of hours after the departure of the captal and his band, Albert Denyn stood under the projecting doorway of his inn, gazing out in the direction of the forest, whence he expected to see Walleran Urgel make his appearance. His two companions had often tried to engage him in conversation; but though he had replied kindly and with a smile, he had so soon fallen into thought again, that they had at length ceased their efforts, Martin saying to his fellow- trooper, Leave him, leave him, Grandison! He is just upon the edge of his own land. I recollect you blubbered like a baby at the last look of the Isle of Wight; so he may well be somewhat sad on quitting his native country. At the end of those two hours, Albert Denyn seemed to suffer his impatience to get the better of him; and, after cross-questioning the people of the inn once more in regard to the old man, he proposed to his two companions to set out in s%areh of the ancient hermitage in the wood, which had been mentioned during the morning in connexion with Walleran Urgel. Movement, activity, change, enterprise, formed the life of the man-at-arms in that day. Scarcely had the suggestion passed the lips of Albert Denyn, when he and his comrades were in the saddle, and riding on towards the forest; while three or four of the horseboys of the hostelry stood and looked after them as they went, till the tall, strong figures of the three horsemen and their powerful chargers became ...