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It had ever been the summit of my ambition to attain a post at the head of a storming party: my wish had now been accomplished, and gloriously ended; and I do think that, after all was over, and our men laid asleep on the ramparts, that I strutted about as important a personage, in my own opinion, as ever trod the face of the earth; and, had the ghost of the renowned Jack-the-giant-killer itself passed that way at the time, I'll venture to say, that I would have given it a kick in the breech without the smallest ceremony.
The two regarded each other, mutually appraising. He towered above her, head and shoulders, and I thought with great satisfaction that, go where she would, she could nowhere find a likelier man than this same Laurence of ours. Like David in his youth, he was ruddy and of a beautiful countenance. "Why, Laurence! What a Jack-the-Giant-killer! Mercy, how big the boy's grown!" "Why, Mary Virginia!
"I suppose you know what happened this morning," she said, with such apparent restraint that every one looked at her expectantly. "Do you mean in connection with Mr. with Jack-the-Giant-Killer?" asked her ladyship, her eyes brightening. "Some one of your servants shot him this morning," said Penelope with great distinctness. There was breathless silence in the room.
He is a little spare creature who flies his kite over steeples when there is anything to do to them, and lodging a cord on the apex, contrives by its means to reach the top without the trouble of scaffolding. No fragility, no displacement of stones, no leaning from the perpendicular, frightens Steeple Jack. He is as bold as his namesake Jack-the-Giant-Killer, and does as wonderful things.
He wouldn't be happy if he couldn't do that. He says amen and hops into bed. Then he grins in a far from imperial way and announces that he's willing to give me another chance, and please won't I tell him the latest news concerning Jack-the-giant-killer. He asked me to-night if I thought you'd mind if he banished your father. They've had a children's quarrel, I believe.
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