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"You are right," said the officer; "I will try to persuade one of them to let me escape." And slowly approaching, he accosted a young light-horseman, of about eighteen, who was sitting apart from his comrades upon the parapet.
He now came aboard our ship, being in great habits of friendship with Captain Davis. On the 18th Sir Thomas brought the galleon into the roads, and came himself into the harbour in a boat he had got built at sea, for his long-boat and light-horseman were both lost during the storm, together with a pinnace he had set up at Santos.
"You are right," said the officer; "I will try to persuade one of them to let me escape." And slowly approaching, he accosted a young light-horseman, of about eighteen, who was sitting apart from his comrades upon the parapet.
"I see how it will be," said Athos: "we shall get into some pretty quarrel or other, and we have no need of one just now. D'Artagnan, tell us what sort of a night you have had, and we will describe ours afterward." "Ah, yes," said a light-horseman, with a glass of brandy in his hand, which he sipped slowly.
"You are right," said the officer; "I will try to persuade one of them to let me escape." And slowly approaching, he accosted a young light-horseman, of about eighteen, who was sitting apart from his comrades upon the parapet.
"Which you please, monsieur!" said the light-horseman, drawing from his fob a very handsome watch, studded with diamonds; "half past seven." "Thirty-five minutes after seven," said Athos, "by which you perceive I am five minutes faster than you." And bowing to all the astonished persons present, the young men took the road to the bastion St.
"A Visit to the Camp" gives just such a scene save that the characters are in eighteenth-century costume as might be witnessed even to-day, when parents, aunts and cousins visit their young hopeful amid the martial surroundings of his volunteer camp; and here, too, may be mentioned a series of single figures in military costume a "Life-guardsman," "Light Infantryman," "Light-horseman" and a "Foot-soldier."
He had been no Cunningham unless his sense of duty had been very near the surface no Englishman, had he not been proud that men of a foreign, conquered race should think him worthy of all that honor; and no man at all if his eye had been quite dry when the veteran light-horseman swaggered out at last and left him to his own reflections.
These were all published by Macklin. The foot-soldier's uniform appears in "Recruits"; the handsome uniform of the Light-horseman, with its plumed helmet and high boots, in "A Visit to the Camp," and again in "The Deserter."
In the intermediate classes may be reckoned sharks of a monstrous size, skait, rock-cod, grey-mullet, bream, horse-mackarel, now and then a sole and john dory, and innumerable others unknown in Europe, many of which are extremely delicious, and many highly beautiful. At the top of the list, as an article of food, stands a fish, which we named light-horseman.
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