An Old Family Legend, Or, One Husband And Two Marriages : a Romance V. 4
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Earl Rowland himself then appeared, mounted on a white charger, and looking proudly around, with an iin* daunted air of chivalric courage. He was armed at all points, and rode with his sword in his hand. A range of servitors, with the Waltham arms worked on their backs and breasts, brought up the rear. When the earl was in the midst of the lists, the earl marshal, attended by the heralds and pursuivants at arms, rod,e up * The Waltham crest. I 2 and 172 AN OLD FAMILY LEGEND, and demanded his na...me and purpose ; to Which he loftily replied^ " Lord niarshal ! please to know me as Rowland, the ninth earl of Waltham ; and I appear in arms to attest my freedom from covert practice, in regard to the possession of my earl- dom. If any man, not below the degree of a knight, and of unstained escutcheon, dares to question what I say, let him now come forward, and I will throw the term of traitor in his teeth: so help me, St. George, and my good cause V* Thus speaking, the earl descended from his charger, with as much graceful ease as though he had been unarmed.
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