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from the courtyard.
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Did ye hear of her?" repeated Dick.
I heard of her," said Matcham.
How your voice twitters! What aileth you?" said Dick. "'Tis a most
excellent good fortune, this Joanna; it will take their minds from us."
"
Dick," cried Matcham, "I am lost; we are both lost. Let us flee if
there be yet time. They will not rest till they have found me. Or, see!
let me go forth; when they have found me, ye may flee. Let me forth,
Dick--good Dick, let me away!"
She was groping for the bolt, when Dick at last comprehended.
"
By the mass!" he cried, "y' are no Jack; y' are Joanna Sedley; y' are
the maid that would not marry me!"
The girl paused, and stood silent and motionless. Dick, too, was silent
for a little; then he spoke again.
"Joanna," he said, "y' 'ave saved my life, and I have saved yours; and we
have seen blood flow, and been friends and enemies--ay, and I took my
belt to thrash you; and all that time I thought ye were a boy. But now
death has me, and my time's out, and before I die I must say this: Y' are
the best maid and the bravest under heaven, and, if only I could live, I
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