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‘Thou hast bound up my wounds, and set me on thine own beast, and brought me to an inn,' said the stranger. ‘Blessed be thy living witness to Christ's parable. '
He had the inscrutable eyes of a hare. Say what he might, there was always something at odds between them and the picked precision of his speech. He sat propped against a pillow formed of Brion's cloak; the great horse-cloth was wrapped about his naked limbs; his clothes were spread to dry near the glowing brazier; he had eaten little of the food and drunk feverishly of the wine, and his tongue was loosened.