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"Rogue?" says he, "'Tis an ill word! And yet I had rather be rogue than fool, and you are the fool of the world, Martin, for here are you seeking quarrel with your best friend." "Friend?" quoth I, "O God protect me from such!" "Now, look'ee, you have named me rogue and good as called me liar, which is great folly seeing you do lie in my power.
"Well, look'ee here," spoke up Billy, "our little agreement holds, don't it? that is, if we ever get out of this here mess, and Selina hasn't gone and taken a husband. Play fair, leave it to the maid, and let the best man win; that's what we shook hands over. If that holds, seemin' to me the rest can wait."
"Look'ee, sir," cries the colonel, "if I had not formerly had some respect for you, I should not think you worth my resentment. However, as you are a gentleman born, and an officer, and as I have had an esteem for you, I will give you some marks of it by putting it in your power to do yourself justice. I will tell you therefore, sir, that you have acted like a scoundrel."
"Nay, look'ee, Martin, life may be worth whiles now and then aye, lad, there be times, good times." "What times?" "Well, Martin, to lie snug 'neath hedge o' star-time, when your fire's low an' the stars peep down through leaves at a man wink, they go, and wink, wink, till, watching 'em, a man forgets his troubles awhile and knows something o' content.
For look'ee, having boarded yon devil's craft and cut down such as resisted, I was very properly for hanging such as remained, when down on me comes my lady and is for carrying the rogues to trial, the which is but vain labour and loss o' time, since each and all of my twenty and three prisoners is bound to swing soon or late, as I told her, but, 'No matter, Sir Adam, says she.
Hereupon I stooped above my captive and set the flat of my blade to his forehead just below his thick, red hair. "Look'ee, dog!" I panted, while he glared up at me beneath his bruised arms, "Set so much as a finger on yon pitiful brat again and I'll cut a mark in your gallows-face shall last your life out." "His throat, cully quick's the word!" breathed a voice in my ear.
Come, the chart, lad, out wi' the chart and Bartlemy's jewels are ours pearls, Ben diamonds, rubies aha, come, find the chart let your comrade aid ye, lad "'Stand back! says Ben and whips a pistol from his belt. 'Look'ee, Roger, says he, 'I found the dagger without ye and I'll find the chart stand back! "'Why here's ill manners to a comrade, Ben ill manners, sink me but as ye will.
I am waiting for you. 'Why, look'ee, sir, returned Hugh with increased embarrassment, 'am I the man that you privately left your whip with before you rode away from the Maypole, and told to bring it back whenever he might want to see you on a certain subject?
'Look'ee here, sir! cried John, turning his rueful eyes on Mr Haredale, who had dropped on one knee, and was hastily beginning to untie his bonds. 'Look'ee here, sir! The very Maypole the old dumb Maypole stares in at the winder, as if it said, "John Willet, John Willet, let's go and pitch ourselves in the nighest pool of water as is deep enough to hold us; for our day is over!"
Within Belsaye men aye, and women too! have endured the torment, Orson. To-day, at sundown, a noble man doth burn, Jenkyn." "Why, look'ee, master," spake Jenkyn, bold-voiced yet blenching from Beltane's unswerving gaze, "look'ee, good master, here is no matter for honest woodsmen, look'ee " "Aye," nodded tall Orson, "'tis no matter of ours, so wherefore should us meddle?"
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