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"Here's a big-looking fellow whose boots will just fit me," he said, stooping and seizing the scout's leg. "There's an officer behind him," said the villain in the priest's dress; "he will be more worth stripping." Nicholas pointed his revolver full in the man's face and fired, but his aim was unsteady. He had missed. Again he pulled the trigger, but it had been the last shot.
There were line-of-battle ships, and frigates, and corvettes, and huge Indiamen as big-looking as many line-of-battle ships, and large transports, and numberless merchantmen ships and barques, and brigs and schooners; but as to what the Barbara was like I had not an idea.
He was a big-looking man in the saddle and he showed himself to the greatest advantage by riding rigidly erect with his head thrown a little back, so that the loose brim of his sombrero was continually in play about his face. For all her dislike of him she could not but admit that he was the beau ideal of the fine horseman.
"I suppose you'll stand a quart for that, master?" "A quart for what, you vagabond? A quart because I've done myself up in heaps; a quart because I'm fit to pull myself into fiddlestrings?" "No," said the ostler; "because I've just put up the gentleman's horse." "What gentleman's horse?" "Why, the big-looking fellow with the white face, now in the parlour." "What, did he come on a horse, Sam?
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