Arrived there, Edwald had himself disharnessed: he placed all the pieces of his fair bright armour carefully together, with a kind exactness, almost as if he were burying a beloved friend that was dead. Then he beckoned his squires[…]
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"Damn this armor! A man can't dig in armor." He stripped off his breast-plate, back-plate, greaves, and sollerets; took the mattock from the amazing load on Beamish's shoulder. “I also propose to dig—with my hands,” said de Gys. “Phu-nan can help us.” They, too, disharnessed.
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