lesson 14 a noble gangster

new words and expressions:
promptly adv.准时的
valiant a.英勇的

phrases and sentences:
pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection'

As long ago as the fourteenth century ,an English man, Sir John Hawkwood, make the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by the gangsters.