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"You can't have any more beer, McCuaig," said the corporal, from a safe distance. "Watch me, sonny!" replied McCuaig. With a single sweep of his hand, he snatched two bottles from the ledge behind the corporal's head.
From my window I saw my father and Corporal Rufus Smith rush frantically out of the house hatless and unkempt, like men who are obeying a sudden and overpowering impulse. The three strangers laid no hands on them, but all five swept swiftly away down the avenue and vanished among the trees.
Having attended to this duty, the orderly sergeant was sent to the field to ascertain the condition of the prisoners in charge of Corporal Tilford. They still sat upon their horses, with the right hand made fast at the crupper-strap, and doubtless were anxiously awaiting the result of the skirmish in the road.
"One moment, Lieutenant," interrupted Morrison in tones so even that Cary marveled at his composure, "Did you get Corporal Dudley?" Cary's ears ached for the answer. He knew just as well as the questioner the danger which might now be disclosed or be forever forgotten and his heart went out to the other in this moment of hideous suspense.
One of the most ancient and most established instruments of power was the court of star chamber, which possessed an unlimited discretionary authority of fining, imprisoning, and inflicting corporal punishment; and whose jurisdiction extended to all sorts of offences, contempts, and disorders that lay not within reach of the common law.
You're the kind they give commissions to, now and then and your folks in the old country never raised you for a police trooper." "Can you tell me how to win one?" ask the corporal, and Stimson noticed the little gleam in his eyes. "There's one road to advancement, and you know where to find the trooper's duty laid down plain," he said, with a dry smile.
I'm thinking there's some in the army would answer it!" "Then they'll be hanged, drawn, and quartered!" averred the corporal. "Who are ye thinking would do that?" "I'm not precisely knowing. But there are some with King George were brought up on the hope of King James!" More liquor appeared upon the table, was poured and drunk. The talk grew professional.
The Corporal saw the look, and it bore out a theory he had formed during the past month, so, as he lingered, he set about a task that had lain in his mind for some time. As a rule he was not a careful man in his speech, and the delicacy of this manoeuvre taxed his ingenuity to the utmost, for he loved the girl and feared to say too much.
The corporal returned to his story, and went on but with an embarrassment in doing it, which here and there a reader in this world will not be able to comprehend; for by the many sudden transitions all along, from one kind and cordial passion to another, in getting thus far on his way, he had lost the sportable key of his voice, which gave sense and spirit to his tale: he attempted twice to resume it, but could not please himself; so giving a stout hem! to rally back the retreating spirits, and aiding nature at the same time with his left arm a kimbo on one side, and with his right a little extended, supporting her on the other the corporal got as near the note as he could; and in that attitude, continued his story.
My word for it, it has been a fine comedy, this bonhomie of mine, this hail-fellow well met. And only to-night he saw the pit at his feet. If that fool of a corporal had not been drunk." "Wretch!" cried the priest, trembling as if seized with convulsion. Duped! The vicomte opened the door, and bowed with his hand upon his heart.
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