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"Such as has served a person of condition, whose lodging is now worse appointed," answered the honest keeper, his bile rising so fast that he added, in a muttering and inaudible tone, "so it may well serve a crop-eared knave like thee." He acted as the usher, however, and led on towards the ranger's apartments.
He meant to play it to a finish. Those cards! He ran over his hand mentally. There was that commanding trump his knowledge, his unsuspected knowledge of the whereabouts of Crop-eared José. Then his next biggest trump and here his heart lifted with a thrill was the fact that Pearl loved him.
The pony being gentle I caught and mounted him at once, and by the time we had got back to town money could not have bought that little crop-eared horse from me. As will be seen, later on, I kept that pony and he was a faithful friend and servant until his tragic death, years afterward. In two days we had a pack-train of twenty horses rigged for the trip.
"Par excellence," said Bothwell; "women, wine, and wassail, all to be had for little but the asking; and if you find it in your conscience to let a fat priest think he has some chance to convert you, gad he'll help you to these comforts himself, just to gain a little ground in your good affection. Where will you find a crop-eared whig parson will be so civil?"
The first names, being those of distinguished Cavalier families in the neighbourhood, he muttered over in a tone of approbation paused and pshawed at that of Bridgenorth yet acquiesced, with the observation, "But he is a good neighbour, so it may pass for once." "The false crop-eared hypocrites," cried he, with a hearty oath, "have had their turn of the good weather.
Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of Bradwardine and Tully-Veolan, retorted the sportsman in huge disdain, 'that I'll make a moor-cock of the man that refuses my toast, whether it be a crop-eared English Whig wi' a black ribband at his lug, or ane wha deserts his ain friends to claw favour wi' the rats of Hanover. In an instant both rapiers were brandished, and some desperate passes exchanged.
Suppose, for instance, José should really have made his escape, impossible as that feat appeared, what definite, tangible proof had he that the crop-eared bandit had really been harbored by Gallito? Only some vague statements made by a woman to Hanson, a woman who thought that she had overheard a conversation or several conversations between Gallito and Bob Flick.
Nevertheless I felt it incumbent to speak somewhat harshly to the yet sulking sectary for such untimely uproar. "Did you mistake this for a conventicle, Master Cairnes," I asked grimly, "an assembly of crop-eared worshippers, that you venture to lift your voice in such a howl when you wake? It will be better if you learn to keep still at such a time, if you hope to companion long with me."
He was desperate now. "What would your saintly, crop-eared friends say if they knew as much of your past history as I do?" "Tis a matter for conjecture," said Hogan, humouring him. "How think you would they welcome the story of the roystering rake and debauchee who deserted the army of King Charles because they were about to hang him for murder?" "Ah! how, indeed?" sighed Hogan.
Alice could scarcely refrain from giving a cry of dismay as she saw this. "Could he not be sent to Virginia?" she asked. "Could you not go out and join him there?" exclaimed the Judge, tauntingly. "If you are not content with having saved your crop-eared lover's life, you shall have his dead body by to-morrow morning, wench, and I will order him to be hung forthwith."
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