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It would be good to hear him say "Surelye, missus" in that admiring, husky voice. He was the only one of her farm-hands who, she felt, had any deference towards her any real loyalty, though he was the last come. "Socknersh, d'you think your master up at Garlinge would let me hire one or two rams to cross with my ewes? I might go up and have a look at them.
"We are no prison " But they got no further, for Garlinge and Clupp silenced them by clapping huge hands over their gaping mouths. Brilliana gave a little sigh of relief at the welcome quiet. "Now, Sir Blaise," she asked, "why are these gentlemen here?"
But the illustration was as much lost upon Garlinge as the original command, and in his attempt to imitate it he whirled his arm so recklessly that his companions scattered in dismay, and Halfman himself was fain to move a step or two backward to avoid the yokel's meaningless sweeps. "Have a care," he cried. "If you work so wild you will damage your company." Mrs.
I will back our white coats against Master Hampden's green coats, or Essex's swarm in orange-tawny. Have you conveyed my message to my two miserly neighbors?" "I sent Clupp to Master Hungerford," Halfman answered, "and Garlinge to Master Rainham, bidding them to your presence peremptory.
Evander, whose arms were now released from bondage by Garlinge and Clupp, made a gesture of absolute acquiescence. "I am very sure I should have joined my men," he answered, calmly. Brilliana rounded on him triumphant. "Then you are a prisoner of war, fairly taken. Let me have no more words."
"Order your pikes," Halfman commanded. "Advance your pikes. Shoulder your pikes." Then, as these orders were obeyed deftly enough by Thoroughgood and with bewildering variety by the others, he continued, "Trail your pikes," and then broke sharply off to expostulate with one of the farm-hands. "Now, Timothy Garlinge, call you that trailing of a pike.
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