Chap. II
The Monastery
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children towards her, one with either hand, while they both answered the stranger. 'I will not go with you,' said Halbert, boldly, 'for you are a false-hearted Southern;
![Stawarth Bolton and the Glendinnings](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/The_Monastery_%28HF%2C_1912%29_-_Stawarth_Bolton_and_the_Glendinnings.png/400px-The_Monastery_%28HF%2C_1912%29_-_Stawarth_Bolton_and_the_Glendinnings.png)
Stawarth Bolton and the Glendinnings
and the Southerns killed my father; and I will war on you to the death when I can draw my father's sword.'
'God-a-mercy, my little levin-bolt,' said Stawarth, 'the goodly custom of deadly feud will never go down in thy day, I presume. And you, my fine white-head, will you not go with me, to ride a cock-horse?'