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There was, of course, care taken that he should escape his destined fate, and he was ever after much protected by the King, as a man of real science, and intimately connected with the royal destinies." S.... Louis was the slave of his physicians also. Cottier, one of these, was paid a retaining fee of ten thousand crowns, besides great sums in lands and money.
The English smugglers addressed him as Captain Sharp, but I learnt afterwards that "Captain Sharp" was the name by which all their officers were known, and that there were at least twenty other Captain Sharps scattered along the coast. At the time, I thought that this man was the supreme head, the man who had sent Mrs Cottier her present, the man who had spoken to me that night of the snow-storm.
I was not exactly afraid, for the snow in my face bothered me too much, but often the night would seem full of people laughing, horrible people and often I would think that I saw Mrs Cottier lying half-buried in a drift. I rode three miles or more without seeing anybody.
After breakfast, Mrs Cottier went to give orders to the servant, while Hugh and I slipped down the lane to see how the snow had drifted in our little orchard by the brook. We had read somewhere that the Red Indians often make themselves snow-houses, or snow-burrows, when the winter is severe. We were anxious to try our hands at making a snow-house.
His proper name was Cottier; he had always been known as Jemy-Lord. "Company not arrived, sir," he said. "Wait or serve?" "What is the time?" said Philip. "Struck eight; but clock two minutes soon." "Serve the supper at once," said Philip.
I slept that night twenty miles off Ballywhacket, at the house of a cottier, who gave me potatoes and milk, and to whom I gave a hundred guineas after, when I came to visit Ireland in my days of greatness. I wish I had the money now. But what's the use of regret?
Listen! it's striking ten by the church. I'll give you fifteen minutes, and step into your breakfast-room and look over the Times." The Clerk rolled out, and then Philip heard his loud voice through the door in conversation with Jem-y-Lord. "And how's Mrs. Cottier to-day?" "Middling, sir, thank you, sir. "You don't let us see too much of her, Jemmy."
The coach-horn, sounding in the distance, was drawing rapidly nearer; we could hear the rhythm of the sixteen hoofs. Presently the horses swung round the corner; we saw the coachman flick his leaders so that he might dash up to the inn in style. Then as they galloped up I saw two well-known figures sitting outside, well muffled up. They were Hugh and Mrs Cottier.
When it was at its height, voices of Popes like Alexander III and of Doctors like St. Thomas Aquinas, were lifted to proclaim the equality of all men in the sight of God. At the altar, serf and master, count or cottier, knelt side by side.
'It's not that, Mr. Cottier, she answered me." "My wig and gown to-day, Jemmy," said Philip, and he went out in his robes as Deemster. The day was bright, and the streets were thronged with vehicles. Brakes, wagonettes, omnibuses, private carriages, and cadger's carts all loaded to their utmost, were climbing out of Douglas by way of the road to Peel.
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