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"Softly, softly, my Lord Chief Justice, and most puissant Cacique," said the captain; "the hour has not yet come to empanel a jury of fat yeomen, and no man must interfere with my boys but myself." "The rebuke is harsh, I must observe, Captain Borroughcliffe," said the colonel, "but I pardon it because it is military. No, no, Kit these nice points must be left to martial usages.
In truth, it was this deficiency that had induced him to depart in person, the preceding night, in quest of the reinforcement, instead of sending an express on the errand, But the necessity of devising an excuse for a change in this dangerous arrangement was obviated by Colonel Howard, who exclaimed, as soon as Borroughcliffe concluded his plan: "To me, Captain Borroughcliffe, belongs, of right, the duty of defending St.
"If your friend stands this charge," said Borroughcliffe to Griffith, with unmoved composure, "his nerves are made of iron; such a charge would break the Coldstreams; with Pompey in the ranks!" "I trust in God," cried Griffith, "he will have forbearance enough to respect the weakness of Colonel Howard! he presents a pistol!"
"Ha!" exclaimed Borroughcliffe, grasping a pistol, with an air of great resolution, "the work thickens I had not included this man in my estimate of their numbers. Is he a Samson, that his single arm can change the face of things so suddenly! Down with your own weapon, you masquerader! or, at the report of this pistol, your body shall be made a target for twenty bullets."
"That man," said Griffith, in confusion, and hesitating to utter even the equivocal truth that suggested itself, "that man does not belong to our ship's company." "And yet he has been seen in your company," returned the incredulous Borroughcliffe; "he was the spokesman in last night's examination, Colonel Howard, and, doubtless, commands the rear-guard of the rebels."
"I was down for a few minutes, I do believe," returned Manual; "there is the path of a bullet across my scalp." "Humph! on the head!" said Borroughcliffe, dryly; "the hurt is not likely to be mortal, I see. Well, I shall offer to raffle with the first poor devil I can find that has but one good leg, for who shall have both; and that will just set up a beggar and a gentleman!
"Nay, if they are of a rank in life to render such a step probable," returned the cornet, "I am well content that the matter should be thus settled. I trust, however, that Captain Borroughcliffe will consider that the th light dragoons has some merit in this affair, and that we are far short of our numbers in the second squadron."
Borroughcliffe signed to the boy, who stood in the background, to advance; and he was instantly obeyed, with all that eagerness which a sense of injury on the part of the sufferer could excite.
"Comrade, I greet ye!" said Borroughcliffe, staggering to the side of his prisoner, where he seated himself with an entire absence of ceremony: "Comrade, I greet ye! Is the kingdom in danger, that gentlemen traverse the island in the uniform of the regiment of incognitus, incognitii, 'torum damme, how I forget my Latin! Say, my fine fellow, are you one of these 'torums?"
Borroughcliffe had made a suitable provision of glasses; and extracting the cork in a certain scientific manner, he tendered to his companion a bumper of the liquor, before another syllable was uttered by either of the expectants.
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