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Updated: May 28, 2025
"What's the use, sir, of makin' a man feel like a villain and putting thoughts into his head without means to fulfil 'em?" "Sit you quiet," said my father, "while I try to drive Mr. Fett's story out of your head with an honester one." "About a spade, master?" "There is a spade in the story."
But Nat, having passed through a real gale, had saved not sufficient fondness for his verse to blush, for it. We should have been mournful for old Worthyvale, but that night we knew only that it was good, being young, to have escaped death. Under the stars we made bad jokes on Mr. Badcock's sea-sickness, and sang in chorus to Mr. Fett's solos "With a fa-la, fa-la, fa-la-la!
Fett's sore to heal, Sir John would watch the guard being relieved, and sometimes pick up his gun and take long aim at the sentry, but lay it down with a sort of sigh: for though the sight of a Genoese was poison to him, he reckoned outpost-shooting as next door to shooting a fox. "Our hosts, I should tell you, were an old soldier and his wife.
We spent the next five days in company with these strange fellow-lodgers, and more than once it gave me an uncanny feeling to turn in the midst of Mr. Fett's prattle and, catching the eye of Marc'antonio or Stephanu as they sat and listened with absolute gravity, to reflect on the desperate business we were here to do. We went about the city openly, no man suspecting us.
And yet I evoked laughter; from which I may conclude that my efforts amused. The great Demosthenes, sir, practised declamation with his mouth full of pebbles for retaliatory purposes, I have sometimes thought." Here my father, who had been paying no attention to Mr. Fett's discourse, interrupted it with a sharp but joyful exclamation; and glancing towards him I saw his face clear of anxiety.
Hows'ever, the weather keeping mild, we won through the passes with no more damage than the loss of Mr. Fett's heel, brought about by his having to walk the rest of the way into Calenzana.
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