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I take no man at rumor's price, Nor as the gossips cry him. A son may ride, and stride, and stand; His father's eye--his father's hand-- His father's tongue may give command; But ere I trust I'll try him!
BUT before young Cunningham was called upon to pay even a portion of the price of fealty there was more of the receiving of it still in store for him, and he found himself very hard put to it, indeed, to keep overboiling spirits from becoming exultation of the type that nauseates.