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CHAPTER IE. The young Simon Potkin and the Knight Sans- Terre did
not, on escaping from the watch on Corn Hill, betake themselves, as
Whittington apprehended they would do, to the Key, the inn kept by
the elder Potkin, but very audaciously, despite their encounter
with Sir Robert Percy, pursued their way to the house of his
father, the Baron of Risingham. This house was situated near
Aldgate, a locality rather in favour at that period with persons of
rank. The dwelling of the Baron of Risingham, however, stood in the
midst of a garden of considerable ske, which was surrounded by a
high wall, with a sort of battlemented gateway ii; front of the
house with a little chamber over it, inhabited by the most surly
and ill-tempered of porters, a fellow who in the very brutality of
his faithfulness was above a bribe. As for any mode of entrance,
save by means of the gateway, neither the Baron of Risingham nor
his porter thought of, holding that the veriest mountaineer would
have been scared by the danger of an attempt to scale that wall.
But love, who laughs at locksmiths, laughs also at old barons and
grim porters, and high garden walls. It chanced that between the
garden wall at the back of the house and a piece of waste ground
that lay beyond it was a narrow lane, thickly clustered with the
alder trees which were the great growth of the neighbourhood.
Clumps of these trees were twisted thickly together against the
wall of the Baron of Eisingham's garden, and on the other side of
the lane a scanty straggling row of wych-elms reared their grisly
half-naked trunks against the moonlight sky. The two youths, Simon
Potkin and the Knight Sans-Terre, paused at the entrance of this
lane, and looked cautiously round, but no person was near. All was
still, save the piping of a nightin...
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