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Why am I so tame? Why crush I not the viper? Fear replied, Watch him a while, and let his strength be tried." THE next morning, after breakfast, the banker took his horse a crop-eared, fast-trotting hackney and merely leaving word that he was going upon business into the country, and should not return to dinner, turned his back on the spires of C . He rode slowly, for the day was hot.
If I could but cook for him," he added mournfully, "he would soon see reason, for," with customary boastfulness, "I have yet to see the man whose opinions I could not change with a single dish. I, Crop-eared José, have won freedom more than once on an omelette, and have gained the sympathy and interest of those set against me, with a single sauce.
His doublet was torn and his shoulder bleeding, whilst his empty scabbard hung like a lambent tail behind him. "We have brought him, captain," one of the men announced. "Aye, you crop-eared, psalm-whining cuckolds, you've brought me, d n you," growled Sir Crispin, whose eyes rolled fiercely.
"I'll show you how little you know of human nature and character. I'll take this wild Indian boy, brought up in the woods, and as free and careless as a deer, and in six months I'll change him into a canting, crop-eared, whining pen-machine, with quills behind his ears, and a back always bending humbly.
The police officials whom Hanson consulted as soon as his returning health permitted him to do so, realized that in spite of their anxiety to secure the famous and slippery Crop-eared José, he was quite as safely imprisoned by the mountains as if they themselves had secured him. There was no possible escape for him.
"But with a qualification," said Bothwell; "I don't understand what the devil the crop-eared whig means." "Come, gentlemen," said Morton, who became impatient of their insolence, "we are here met as good subjects, and on a merry occasion; and we have a right to expect we shall not be troubled with this sort of discussion."
The events which preceded the revolution of 1688; the undisguised adherence of the king to the Church of Rome; the partial toleration of the despised Quakers and Anabaptists; the gradual relaxation of the severity of the penal laws against Papists and Dissenters, preparing the way for the royal proclamation of entire liberty of conscience throughout the British realm, allowing the crop-eared Puritan and the Papist priest to build conventicles and mass houses under the very eaves of the palaces of Oxford and Canterbury; the mining and countermining of Jesuits and prelates, are detailed with impartial minuteness.
"They took us for Essex men because of our orange-tawny scarves, but they found out when too late that we were right-tight Cavalier lads and no crop-eared curmudgeons. Why, we were in the thick of them with sword and pistol before they had stayed from snuffling their psalms of welcome." Brilliana held out her hand again for her cousin's hand and clasped it manfully.
"But with a qualification," said Bothwell; "I don't understand what the devil the crop-eared whig means." "Come, gentlemen," said Morton, who became impatient of their insolence, "we are here met as good subjects, and on a merry occasion; and we have a right to expect we shall not be troubled with this sort of discussion."
And then you sheltered José and hid him after that. On your own account you can't let him be taken." Gallito smiled in unpleasant triumph. "If I should turn state's evidence for so notorious a criminal as Crop-eared José I should certainly get immunity myself.
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