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Up by four o'clock, and ready with Mrs. Turner to take coach before five; which we did, and set on our journey, and got to the Wells at Barnett by seven o'clock, and there found many people a-drinking; but the morning is a very cold morning, so as we were very cold all the way in the coach.
'You've been a-drinking, Christopher, said Barbara's uncle plaintively. 'No, said Barbara, frightened as she well might be at the presence of strangers at this curious scene, and at the scene itself. 'Uncle had business in London, and he brought me with him this afternoon. We heard that you had written the music to a play, and we went to hear it.
Going to my Lord's I found my Lord had got a great cold and kept his bed, and so I brought him to my Lord's bedside, and he and I did agree together to this purpose what I should allow him. That done and the day proving fair I went home and got all my goods packed up and sent away, and my wife and I and Mrs. Hunt went by coach, overtaking the carts a-drinking in the Strand.
Bens and Sir W. Pen fell a-drinking to him till he was drunk, and so sent him away.
"A-eating and a-drinking of a honest man's dinner, by the Lord!" says he, clenching fat fists. "O ecod a hell-fire rogue a very lousy, scurvy dog as shall be carted and whipped and set in Sir Richard's new pillory!" "If there is aught left to eat," says I, "show it me!" "As fine a capon as was ever plucked, by the Lord!" he groaned. "Most true!" says I, stretching myself in the hay.
'I don't know; I really don't know, said Giles, with a rueful countenance. 'I couldn't swear to him. 'What do you think? asked Mr. Blathers. 'I don't know what to think, replied poor Giles. 'I don't think it is the boy; indeed, I'm almost certain that it isn't. You know it can't be. 'Has this man been a-drinking, sir? inquired Blathers, turning to the doctor.
Thereafter he went home, taking with him his cloak all tattered, and withal what he had cut from the paw of the bear. Thorkel sat a-drinking when he came into the hall, and much men laughed at the rags of the cloak Grettir had cast over him. Now he threw on to the table what he had chopped off the paw.
"I say, ma'am, that we've been a-drinking together; and when we've been a-drinking together, I say that a man is my friend. Doctor Wood is my friend, madam the Reverend Doctor Wood. We've passed the evening in company, talking about politics, madam politics and riddle-iddle-igion. We've not been flaunting in tea-gardens, and ogling the men." "It's a lie!" shrieked Mrs. Hayes.
"And this was the place," continued she in the same tone, pointing to an old gate-post "this was the place where His Majesty's most illustrious horse did stop when His Majesty's most sainted body was dragged along by the leg, in the stirrup, on account of the wound given him when he was a-drinking at the castle-door, by his stepmother, Queen Elfrida.
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