“Thou art a dapper fellow. It is a wonder that thou wilt strut in the tented field with all this womanish gear. Thy shield: how many of these sparkling baubles thinkest thou I’d leave in it were we once come to knocks?” “I’ll tell thee,” answered Lord Brandoch Daha. “For every jewel that bath been beat out of my shield in battle, never yet went Ito war that I brought not home an hundredfold to set it fair again, from the spoils I obtained from mine enemies.
