From the slow match in his hand he lit the shorterfuse. In the firelight Hal studied his band as they ate, with ravenousappetite, their dinner of smoked meat. Like most ofthese troops he spoke good Dutch. Each step was hampered by the clankingshackles, so that they could not lift their feet high enough to stepover the gunwale of the pinnace, and had to be shoved in by theirguards.
Wait here and do not get ahead of us. Few understood the importance of suchan exalted personage, but the manner in which Sir Francis had recitedthese titles had impressed them. Youwill not beggar me. They hung in the water asthe boat drifted aimlessly in the slack of the tide.
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