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"No churl," returned Ambrose, "if manners makyth man, as we saw at Winchester." "Then what do they make of that cowardly clown, his cousin?" Ambrose laughed, but said, "Prove we our gentle blood at least by not brawling with the fellow. Master Headley will soon teach him to know his place." "That will matter nought to us. To-morrow shall we be with our uncle Hal.
The two new apprentices had been set on to sharpening the weapon points as all that they were capable of, and had been bidden by Smallbones to turn and hold alternately, but "that oaf Giles Headley," said Stephen, "never ground but one lance, and made me go on turning, threatening to lay the butt about mine ears if I slacked." "The lazy lubber!" cried Ambrose.
"Was it not to be absent without leave, that, when the guard was all ready to be marched off, you were not to be found?" "Had the guard been marched off, or the parade even formed, I should of course, have come justly under your censure, Captain Headley; but it was not so you ordered the parade and guard-mounting for a later hour. I am here at that hour."
Such are the women folk, Master Headley. Let them have but a lad to look after, and they'll bleat after him like an old ewe that has lost her lamb."
"Hang me if you didn't play your part to admiration, but the best of the jest is, that on reporting the circumstance to Headley, on the following morning, he said I had acted perfectly right; so had you known this when you had that scene on the parade, you might have pleaded his sanction. However, all that is over. Now then for your adventure." "The tale is soon told," began Ronayne.
These tidings were communicated as Captain Headley was preparing to sit down to breakfast a refreshment, to which the fatigue of mind and body he had undergone during the night had not a little disposed him.
But at that moment there was a shriek of joy, and out from the scarlet and azure petticoats of the nearest steed, there darted a little girl, crying, "Father! father!" and in an instant she was lifted in Master Headley's arms, and was clinging round his neck, while he kissed and blessed her, and as he set her on her feet, he said, "Here, Dennet, greet thy cousin Giles Headley, and these two brave young gentlemen.
You don't imagine Desmond is as young as that, do you? Wait till she's twenty-five and you're twenty-two." "It wouldn't do poor Desmond much good if I did. I could kill Headley Richards." "What for?" "For leaving her." Vera smiled. "That shows how much you care. You wouldn't have felt like killing him if he'd stuck to her. Why should you marry Headley Richards' mistress and take on his child?
The soldiers moved with noiseless footsteps, and spoke in subdued tones. The rumbling of wagons and the occasional boom of a distant gun alone disturbed the stillness of the scene. "Those brave soldiers," says J. T. Headley, "filled with grief to see their beloved chief bowed down by such sorrows, stood for a long time silent and tearful.
Little ships, trees, and wonderful enamelled representations of perils by robbers, field and flood, hung thickly on Saint Julian's pillar, and on the wall and splay of the window beside it; and here, after crossing himself, Master Headley rapidly repeated a Paternoster, and ratified his vow of presenting a bronze image of the hound to whom he owed his rescue.
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