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Where have ye left him? Oh tell me! prithee, prithee, prithee, tell me!" "Ay, ay, but not here. Oh, ye are all curiosity now, mesdames, eh? Lass, I have been three months a-foot travelling all Holland to find ye, and here you are. Oh, be joyful!" and he flung his cap in the air, and seizing both her hands kissed them ardently. "Ah, my pretty she-comrade, I have found thee at last. I knew I should.
Thus my pride, not my principle, my money, not my virtue, kept me honest; though, as it proved, I found I had much better have been sold by my she-comrade to her brother, than have sold myself as I did to a tradesman that was rake, gentleman, shopkeeper, and beggar, all together.
But accost them with honest freedom, and with that customary, and though rustical, most gracious proffer, of the kissed hand, and they withhold neither their hands in turn nor their acquaintance in an honest way. Seeing which I vexed myself that Denys was not with us to prattle with them; he is so fond of women." Denys. "Ahem! he says so, she-comrade.
"Ay, and a man who is better than his word," cried Catherine; "the only one I ever did foregather." "Hold thy peace, wife." "Art a man of sense, Eli, a dirk, a chose, a chose ," shouted Denys. "The she-comrade will be right glad to obey Gerard and yet not face you all, whom she hates as wormwood, saving your presence.
He called her his she-comrade, and was always cheering her up with his formula and hilarities, and she petted him and made much of him, and feebly hectored it over him as well as over Martin, and would not let him eat a single meal out of her house, and forbade him to use naughty words. "It spoils you, Denys.
Old Martin tells me ye need not make signals to me, she-comrade; I am as blind as love Martin tells me she cut her arm, and let her blood flow, and smeared her heels when Gerard was hunted by the bloodhounds, to turn the scent from her lad." "Well, and if I did, 'twas my own, and spilled for the good of my own," said Margaret defiantly.
Mortification, curiosity, panting affection, aversion to her who came to gratify those feelings, yet another curiosity to see what she was like, and what there was in her to bewitch Gerard and make so much mischief. At last Denys came alone, and whispered, "The she-comrade is without." "Fetch her in," said Eli. "Now whisht, all of ye. None speak to her but I."
You see here one who is a man, though but half an arbalestrier, owing to that devilish Englishman's arrow, in whose carcass I have, however, left a like token, which is a comfort. In another week or so I shall have twain. Marriage is not a habit of mine; but I capitulate to so many virtues. You are beautiful, good-hearted, and outspoken, and above all, you take the part of my she-comrade.
She stared, then smiled, "I choose rather to be still thy she-comrade," said she; "closer acquainted, we might not agree so well," And in her character of she-comrade she equipped him with a new sword of Antwerp make, and a double handful of silver. "I give thee no gold," said she, "for 'tis thrown away as quick as silver, and harder to win back.
He trotted off to Margaret and said, "She-comrade, I met this day a friend of thine." "Thou didst look into the Rotter then, and see thyself." "Nay, 'twas a female, and one that seeks thy regard; 'twas Catherine, Gerard's mother." "Oh, was it?" said Margaret; "then you may tell her she comes too late.
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