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The Gadfly, still carrying his bundle, shuffled towards the horseman. "Do you happen to be wanting a hay-maker, sir?" he said, touching his ragged cap and running one finger along the bridle. It was the signal agreed upon, and the rider, who from his appearance might have been a country squire's bailiff, dismounted and threw the reins on the horse's neck. "What sort of work can you do, my man?"
Regularly or irregularly, gentlemen must live somehow: and as we read how, the other day, at Comorn, the troops forming that garrison were gay and lively, acted plays, danced at balls, and consumed their rations; though menaced with an assault from the enemy without the walls, and with a gallows if the Austrians were successful, so there are hundreds of gallant spirits in this town, walking about in good spirits, dining every day in tolerable gaiety and plenty, and going to sleep comfortably; with a bailiff always more or less near, and a rope of debt round their necks the which trifling inconveniences, Ned Strong, the old soldier, bore very easily.
From all sides the soft tones vibrated over the sloping land, running out, like the sound of happy weeping, into the first glow of evening; and Pelle's animals began to move farther after each pause to graze. But he did not dare to drive them home yet, for it only meant a thrashing from the bailiff or the pupil if he arrived too early.
She had disliked Luke, rather than liked him, her repugnance to him no doubt arising from the very favour he felt disposed to show to her; and her account of past matters to the bailiff was in accordance with the facts. As she walked along, pondering, she became aware that two people were advancing towards her in the dark twilight.
The bailiff, on receiving the notice, immediately set out for his stand at an alehouse within three doors of Miss Matthews's lodgings; at which, unfortunately for poor Booth, he arrived a very few minutes before Booth left that lady in order to return to Amelia.
"What would not one be willing to do in order to escape this gallows or the wheel?" "Then listen to me. I told you that the bailiff would search the cellars. If he finds the corpse in my house, we are both ruined." "Certainly, signor." "But suppose it be found in another place, far from this spot, who would suspect us of the murder?" "An excellent thought!" exclaimed Julio, joyfully.
"But when John Grange's bad accident happened, of course I had to put down my foot firmly, and say it could not be." "It seems very hard, James Ellis," sighed his mistress; "but I suppose it was right." Then she added quickly: "You are afraid of the poor girl hearing such a rumour?" "More than that, ma'am," said the bailiff huskily; "I'm afraid it would kill her, or send her melancholy mad."
Theme rather than treatment was best calculated to "tickle the groundlings." Stratford in Shakespeare's time administered its own affairs in very complete fashion through the medium of a Guild, which was turned into a Municipal Corporation by Edward VI. It boasted bailiff, aldermen, burgesses and chamberlains, and the council met every month in the Guild Hall.
Master had now pretty well recovered of his wound, and was aloud to drive abowt: it was lucky for him that he had the strength to move. "Sir, sir," says I, "the bailiffs are after you, and you must run for your life." "Bailiff?" says he: "nonsense! I don't, thank heaven, owe a shilling to any man." "Stuff, sir," says I, forgetting my respeck; "don't you owe money in England?
"I do hope he'll be there," Mabel said; "he was such a dear, Cathy a perfect bailiff, with the soul of a gentleman." "He isn't there, though," said Jimmy. "I believe you just dreamed him, like you did the statues coming alive."
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