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After the left-handed Scotchman had bared his brawny arm and measured his distance, and just as he was about to uplift it and strike, Daunton murmured out, "Ralph Rattlin, I knew your father! beware, or your own blood will be dishonoured in me!" "That voice! they shall flog you through me!"
No objection could be raised to this request; and I followed the two officers into the Briton's cabin. O I hae scarce to lay me on, If kingly fields were ance my ain; Wi' the moor-cock on the mountain-bree, But hardship na'er can daunton me. Scottish Song.
The huge vagabond then placed his knee upon my chest, and called out to his companion: "I say, Mister, come and see if this here chap's the right un." The person called to, came up; and, immediately after, through my eyelashes, I beheld the diabolical white face of Daunton.
"Oh, no fear they are at prayers in Sir Reginald's bedroom he is going fast he is restless he cannot sleep." "Where are the servants?" "Snoring in their nests." "And who is with Sir Reginald?" "Nobody but the priest, and his son, Master Ralph without the lawyer has gone up since; he saw all right about the chaise. But am I on the right lay?" "Surely. Joshua Daunton and I "
Now, this could not always be conveniently done. The more I suffered for this Daunton, the more ardently he seemed to attach himself to me. But there appeared to be much more malice than affection in his fidelity. Nothing prospered either with me or my messmates. He contrived, in the most plausible manner possible, to spoil our almost unspoilable meals.
His style of thin and pallid beauty was hateful to me there was no expression in his countenance upon which I could bang the remotest feeling of love. He bore my scrutiny, in his weakness, proudly. "Daunton," said I, at length, "you have failed: in endeavouring to make a tool, you have created an enemy and an avenger of the outraged laws.
There was no more shamefaced lad in the world than me at that moment, for coming out of the din I heard a girl's light laughter. "Never daunton youth" was, I remember, a saying of my grandmother's; but it was the most dauntoned youth in Scotland that now jogged over the moor to the Edinburgh highroad.
It was a fine study, that of observing the gradual emotion of this worldly and magnificent woman, as I proceeded with my eventful tale. I took it up only at that period when Joshua Daunton first made his application to me to be allowed to enter the Eos.
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