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Updated: May 10, 2025
Clearly his fears had been realised, and he had had an attack of the Persian ague. 'Ah, my young friend! he said at last. 'Is it, then, the custom of this part of the country to carry your visitor's rooms by storm or escalado in the early hours of the morning? 'Is it the custom, I answered sternly, 'to barricade up your door when you are sleeping under the roof-tree of an honest man?
Mon Dieu! yes, ye would not credit it to look at him, or to hearken to his soft voice, but from the sailing from Orwell down to the foray to Paris, and that is clear twenty years, there was not a skirmish, onfall, sally, bushment, escalado or battle, but Sir Nigel was in the heart of it.
There was only room for six to wield their weapons with effect, so our scanty band of followers scattered themselves along the line of the rails, which were luckily so high and strong as to make an escalado difficult in the face of any opposition. The riot had now changed into open mutiny among these marshmen and miners.
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