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"No," said Matilda: "I am not going out of our own woods to-day."
"How do I know that?" said the baron. "What surety have I of that?"
"Here is the friar," said Matilda. "He will be surety."
"Not he," said the baron: "he will undertake nothing but where the devil is a party concerned."
"Yes, I will," said the friar: "I will undertake any thing for the lady Matilda."
"No matter for that," said the baron: "she shall not go hunting to-day."
"Why, father," said Matilda, "if you coop me up here in this odious castle, I shall pine and die like a lonely swan on a pool."
"No," said the baron, "the lonely swan does not die on the pool. If there be a river
