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Updated: June 13, 2025
"And hark thee, await his coming forth, and drink not till the business be done." "I will not," answered the dark satellite; "my own life depends on my blow being steady and sure. I know whom I have to deal with." "Vanish, then, till he summons you, and have axe and dagger in readiness." Bonthron nodded and withdrew.
Bonthron seemed to confirm this: he started with a strong convulsion, sat up, stared around, and indicated some consciousness of existence. "Wine wine," were the first words which he articulated. The leech gave him a draught of medicated wine, mixed with water. He rejected it, under the dishonourable epithet of "kennel washings," and again uttered the words, "Wine wine."
"Every drop of blood tingles in my veins as if it had pinpoints, and my knees refuse to bear their burden. What can be the meaning of all this? This is some practice of thine, thou dog leech!" "Ay ay, so it is, honest Bonthron," said Dwining "a practice thou shalt thank me for when thou comest to learn it.
In the interim the Prince, having made a hasty reform in his dress, was lighted to the door by the only sober man of the company, but, in his progress thither, had well nigh stumbled over the sleeping bulk of the brute Bonthron. "How now! is that vile beast in our way once more?" he said in anger and disgust.
The name of "Bonthron Bonthron!" sounded three times through the aisles of the church; but he who owned it acknowledged the call no otherwise than by a sort of shuffling motion with his feet, as if he had been suddenly affected with a fit of the palsy. "Speak, dog," whispered Eviot, "or prepare for a dog's death!"
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