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To which, of course, there was no answer. "You, of course, Leigh! Come up, sir, and show me your exercitation." Now of Amyas's exercitation not a word was written; and, moreover, he was in the very article of putting the last touches to Mr. Brimblecombe's portrait. Whereon, to the astonishment of all hearers, he made answer "All in good time, sir!" and went on drawing. "In good time, sir!
Now Sir Richard had, twenty years ago, in like place, and very much in like manner, broken the head of Vindex Brimblecombe's father, schoolmaster in his day, and therefore had a precedent to direct him; and he answered "Amyas, sirrah! those who cannot obey will never be fit to rule. If thou canst not keep discipline now, thou wilt never make a company or a crew keep it when thou art grown.
A whisper, a rustling close beside him, and Brimblecombe's voice said softly: "Give him more wine, Will; his eyes are opening." "Hey day?" said Amyas, faintly, "not past the Shutter yet! How long she hangs in the wind!" "We are long past the Shutter, Sir Amyas," said Brimblecombe. "Are you mad? Cannot I trust my own eyes?" There was no answer for awhile.
Frank, of course, knew the Alps; and Amyas the Andes; but Cary's notions of height were bounded by M'Gillicuddy's Reeks, and Brimblecombe's by Exmoor; and the latter, to Cary's infinite amusement, spent a whole day holding on by the rigging, and staring upwards with his chin higher than his nose, till he got a stiff neck.
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