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Chapter 30

           "Thebetter,"saidDeBracy;"theruggedslaveswilldefendthemselvestothelastdropoftheirblood,eretheyencountertherevengeofthepeasantswithout.Letusupandbedoing,then,BriandeBois-Guilbert;and,liveordie,thoushaltseeMauricedeBracybearhimselfthisdayasagentlemanofbloodandlineage."

           "Tothewalls!"answeredtheTemplar;andtheybothascendedthebattlementstodoallthatskillcoulddictate,andmanhoodaccomplish,indefenceoftheplace.Theyreadilyagreedthatthepointofgreatestdangerwasthatoppositetotheoutworkofwhichtheassailantshadpossessedthemselves.Thecastle,indeed,wasdividedfromthatbarbicanbythemoat,anditwasimpossiblethatthebesiegerscouldassailthepostern-door,withwhichtheoutworkcorresponded,withoutsurmountingthatobstacle;butitwastheopinionbothoftheTemplarandDeBracy,thatthebesiegers,ifgovernedbythesamepolicytheirleaderhadalreadydisplayed,wouldendeavour,byaformidableassault,todrawthechiefpartofthedefenders’observationtothispoint,andtakemeasurestoavailthemselvesofeverynegligencewhichmighttakeplaceinthedefenceelsewhere.Toguardagainstsuchanevil,theirnumbersonlypermittedtheknightstoplacesentinelsfromspacetospacealongthewallsincommunicationwitheachother,whomightgivethealarmwheneverdangerwasthreatened.

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