United States or Côte d'Ivoire ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'No small amount, either, said Buyse; 'a brace of gallons at the least. Well, be it so. Do you accept the contest? 'I shall do what I may, I answered, 'though I can scarce hope to strike as heavy a blow as so old and tried a soldier. 'Henker take your compliments, he cried gruffly. 'It was with sweet words that you did coax my fingers into that fool-catcher of yours.
Saxon, Buyse, and I had done all that we could to rally them once more, and had cut down some of the foremost of the pursuers, when my eye fell suddenly upon Sir Gervas, standing hatless with a few of his musqueteers in the midst of a swarm of dragoons. Spurring our horses we cut a way to his rescue, and laid our swords about us until we had cleared off his assailants for the moment.
'He is hot, but he loves a man that is a man. Speak boldly and honestly to him, and he is more like to listen to reason. 'Speak as the Lord shall direct you, said a Puritan. 'It is His message which you bear as well as the King's. 'Entice him out alone upon some excuse, said Buyse, 'then up and away mit him upon your crupper. Hagelsturm! that would be a proper game.
I observed that Buyse smiled and whispered something to Saxon a hint, I suppose, that this was the cold fit of which he spoke. 'Tell me, Colonel Buyse, said the King, mastering his emotion by a strong effort. 'Do you, as a soldier, agree with my Lord Grey? 'Ask Saxon, your Majesty, the German answered. 'My opinion in a Raths-Versammlung is, I have observed, ever the same as his.
He has with him Lord Grey of Wark, with Wade, the German Buyse, and eighty or a hundred more. Alas! that two who came are already lost to us. It is an evil, evil omen. 'What is amiss, then? 'Dare, the goldsmith of Taunton, hath been slain by Fletcher of Saltoun in some child's quarrel about a horse. The peasants cried out for the blood of the Scot, and he was forced to fly aboard the ships.
There was order of a sort, but it seemed strangely like confusion to the horseman as he dismounted within the courtyard. Here again a welcome met him, but it was with difficulty he could get a message carried to King Monmouth. Would he not see Lord Grey who was in charge of the cavalry, or Master Ferguson who could tell him all he wanted to know or Buyse, or Wade, or
He had plucked out his snuff-box as I glanced at him, and was offering it with a bow and a flourish to Lord Grey, as unconcernedly as though he were back once more in his London coffee-house. Buyse leaned upon his long broadsword, and looked gloomily at a headless trunk in front of him, which I recognised from the dress as being that of the preacher.
Thirty times the fugitives ventured to look through the outer hedge: but everywhere they found a sentinel on the alert: once they were seen and fired at; they then separated and concealed themselves in different hiding places. At sunrise the next morning the search recommenced, and Buyse was found. He owned that he had parted from the Duke only a few hours before.
He is the republican Wade who led the foot at the skirmish at Bridport, and brought them off with safety. The tall heavy-faced soldier in the steel bonnet is Anthony Buyse, the Brandenburger, a soldado of fortune, and a man of high heart, as are most of his countrymen. I have fought both with him and against him ere now. 'Mark ye the long thin man behind him? cried Reuben.
'Who would have thought it of him? cried Sir Stephen, with flashing eyes, as Buyse and Saxon rode out to meet him. 'What think ye now of our noble monarch, our champion of the Protestant cause? 'He is no very great Krieger, said Buyse. 'Yet perhaps it may be from want of habit as much as from want of courage. 'Courage! cried the old Mayor, in a voice of scorn.
Word Of The Day