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"Slife' Hogan," laughed Crispin dreamily, "I little thought it was to you those crop-ears carried me with such violence. I little thought, indeed, ever to see you again. But you have prospered, you knave, since that night you left Penrith." And he turned his head the better to survey the Irishman. "Aye, I have prospered," Hogan assented.
"The hollow then was much smaller," said he, "so he was not so easily detected as a man would be now, the damned crop-ears I beg pardon, my dears; the rascally rebels poked their swords through the fissure, and two went, one through his jerkin, one through his arm; but he took care not to swear at the liberty, and they went away, not suspecting him."
But these crop-ears..." He paused to peer into the pitcher on the table. "Water! Pah! A scurvy lot, these psalm-mongers!" "Merciful Heaven! Have you no thought for your end?" "Every thought, good youth, every thought, and I would fain prepare me for the morning's dance in a more jovial and hearty fashion than Old Noll will afford me damn him!" Kenneth drew back in horror.
The morn of the third of September that date so propitious to Cromwell, so disastrous to Charles found Crispin the centre of a company of gentlemen in battle-harness, assembled at The Mitre Inn. For a toast he gave them "The damnation of all crop-ears." "Sirs," quoth he, "a fair beginning to a fair day. God send the evening find us as merry."
"Is he safe? I need not ask!" exclaimed Walter. "Safe! in a French vessel. And mother?" "Safe! well! happy! You saw, you heard! Hurrah! The crop-ears are sent to the right about; the captain has done mother and me the favour to forgive us, as a Christian, all that has passed, he says.
"I will not have the prisoners insulted." "It's the prisoners insulting us, Master Fred I mean captain. It's this ne'er-do-well of a brother o' mine bragging and bouncing because his hair's grown a bit longer than mine. He keeps calling me crop-ears, sir, and showing off as if he was a Cavalier." "So you are a crop-ear and a rebel," said Nat, for his fall had hurt him, and made him disagreeable.
Charles rose from his chair, and for a moment his melancholy eyes travelled from the beautiful girl standing by the window to the gallant soldier standing by the door. The face of Evander pleased his scrutiny far more than the face of Rufus, and it came into his mind that he would gladly enroll Evander under his standard and hand over Rufus to the Crop-ears.
Give up, my lads," cried the prisoner. "We've done all we could. Let the crop-ears have a few prisoners for once in a way."
"The hollow then was much smaller," said he, "so he was not so easily detected as a man would be now, the damned crop-ears I beg pardon, my dears; the rascally rebels poked their swords through the fissure, and two went, one through his jerkin, one through his arm; but he took care not to swear at the liberty, and they went away, not suspecting him."
Every evening, when the heat was over, she went by, bound for the day's mail at the post-office. Every evening, in the cool, Fong Wu saw her go, and sometimes she gave him a friendly nod. Her mount was a spirited, mouse-dun mustang, with crop-ears, a roached mane, and the back markings of a mule. She always rode at a run, sitting with easy erectness.
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