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Pegtop, come here, you scoundrel," he continued; "I say, Pegtop, get me out my uniform coat," our friend was a captain of Jamaica militia "so and my sword that will do and here, pull off my trowsers it will be more classical to perambulate in my shirt, in case it really be necessary to persuade them that the palm branch was all a figure of speech.
'Ay, Hawkes Dickon Hawkes; that's Pegtop, you know, Maud, said Milly. 'Well, I dare say; but a man of very bad character, Dr. Bryerly says; and he has written to Mr. Danvers about it for that is what they call waste, cutting down and selling the timber, and the oakbark, and burning the willows, and other trees that are turned into charcoal. It is all waste, and Dr.
Ah, top dem who hab white liver, said Massa Aaron; you, Pegtop, take you fusee and cutlass, and follow me, my shild Massa Aaron alway call me him shild, and troo enough, as parson Calaloo say, him family wery much like Joseph coat many colour among dem, massa though none quite so deep as mine eider" and here the negro grinned at his own jest.
'Who is Pegtop? I asked. 'He's the miller see, yonder it is, and she pointed to a very pretty feature in the landscape, a windmill, crowning the summit of a hillock which rose suddenly above the level of the treetops, like an island in the centre of the valley. 'The mill not going to-day, Beauty? bawled Milly. 'No a, Beauty; it baint, replied the girl, loweringly, and without stirring.
It won't kill him, I do believe; but old L'Amour knows all about it. I hardly ever go into the room when he's so, only when I'm sent for; and he sometimes wakes up and takes a fancy to call for this one or that. One day he sent for Pegtop all the way to the mill; and when he came, he only stared at him for a minute or two, and ordered him out o' the room.
He sat on the last round of the ladder, and tightened the strap of his wooden leg. At my left was a door-case open, but no door. I entered; it was a short passage about six feet long, leading perhaps to a backstair, but the door at the end was locked. I was forced to stand in this recess, then, which afforded no shelter, while Pegtop stumped by with his lantern in his hand.
"I say, Tom tohoo mind I don't shoot you," presenting the bottle of claret. "If it had been soda water, and the wire not all the stronger, I might have had a chance in this climate but we are somewhat caught here, my dear we have no arms." "Poo," said I, "never mind no danger at hand, take my word for it." "May be not, may be not but, Pegtop, you scoundrel, why did you not fetch my pistols?"
I master de leetle one, Eboe Peter, and we carry dem both prisoners into Falmouth. Massa Aaron fight? Ah, massa, no hax dat question again." "Well, but will Mr Gelid fight?" said I. "I tink him will too great friend of Massa Bang good duck shot too oh yes, fink Massa Paul will fight." "Why," said I, "your friends are all heroes, Pegtop will Mr Wagtail fight also?"
"Oh tell him he need not hurry himself: But how are Mr Bang and his friends?" "Oh, dem all wery so so, only Massa Wagtail hab take soch a terrible cold, dat him tink he is going to dead; him wery sorry for himshef, for true massa." "But where are the gentlemen, Pegtop?" "All, every one on dem, is in him bed. Wet clothes have been drying all day." "And when do they mean to dine?"
A very stout mule was furnished for Monsieur Pegtop; and our black guide, who had contracted for our transit across the island, was also in attendance, mounted on a very active, well actioned horse. We had coffee, and started. By the time we reached Leogane, the sun was high and fierce.
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