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Rh rested. They also here did eat and drink and make merry, for that they had gotten deliverance from this so dangerous an enemy. As they sat thus and did eat, Christiana asked the guide if he had caught no hurt in the battle. Then said Mr. Great-heart, "No, save a little on my flesh; yet that also shall be so far from being to my harm that it is at present a proof of my love to my Master and you, and shall be a means, by grace, to increase my reward at last."

But were you not afraid, good sir, when you saw him come out with his club?

"It is my duty," said he, "to mistrust my own ability, that I may have trust in Him who is stronger than all."

But what did you think when he fetched you down to the ground at the first blow?

"Why, I thought," replied he, "that so my Master Himself was served; and yet He it was that conquered at the last."

When you all have thought what you please, I think God has been wonderful good unto us, both in bringing us out of this valley, and in delivering us out of the hand of this enemy. For my part, I see no reason why we should distrust our God any more, since He has now, and in such a place as this, given us such proof of His love as this.

Then they got up and went forward. Now, a little before them stood an oak; and under it, when they came to it, they found an old pilgrim fast