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Updated: June 22, 2025
One day at sunset Hugh Price and Giles Peram suddenly came upon a wild-eyed, haggard young man, mounted upon a jaded steed. He had slept on the ground, for his uncombed hair had leaves still sticking to it, and his clothes were faded, soiled and torn. The evenings were cold, it being late in October, and the fugitive was looking about for a place to sleep.
Jist see dem scratches on him face." Quite crestfallen, Mr. Peram retired, and for several days did not annoy Rebecca with his presence. Next morning Bacon started on his campaign against the Indians. The burgesses were then dissolved and went back to their homes.
He was trembling in every limb, for he expected to be hurled from the house. Robert went into the street in a sort of maze. He felt a strange foreboding that all was not right, and that Giles Peram had some deep scheme on foot. "I will kill the knave, if the governor should hang me for it the next moment," he said in a fit of anger. It was not long before Robert was at the house of Mr.
For a moment, the cavalier was stunned, then, rising, he snatched his sword from its sheath. Sir Albert was not one whit behind in drawing his own blade, and, as steel clashed against steel, Giles Peram shouted: "Oh, Lordy! I will be killed!" and ran from the room.
Reaching the house, he heard voices in the front room and among them that of his sister. She was greatly agitated, and he heard her saying: "No, no, Mr. Peram. I don't understand you." "Not understand me? I love you, sweet maid. Do I not make myself plain?" "No, no; do not talk that way; pray do not." "But you must promise, sweet maid, to wed me. I adore you."
"He is but an idle, boasting, half-witted fellow, as harmless as he is silly. There is a plot, I am sure; but of it I will learn the particulars and advise you." Hugh Price was shrewd, and, by a little flattery, he won over the vacillating Giles Peram to the royalists' side. "Yes, sir, I will draw my sword for the king, ahem draw my sword for the king at any moment.
He felt that he stood above a burning volcano, from which an eruption was liable to take place at any moment. He trembled at the slightest whispers of freedom, for royalty dreads independence, and the idle boasts of Giles Peram startled him. He summoned Hugh Price and consulted with him on the boldness of Peram. "Fear him not, my lord," said Hugh.
"I certainly do," Robert answered, for he was thoroughly democratic. "So do I ahem so do I;" and then the angry little fellow shook his fist at an imaginary foe. "Would you fight for such principles?" "I would." "So would I ahem, so would I," cried Mr. Peram. Giles had a very disagreeable habit of repeating his words.
It was Giles Peram, whose legs were six feet from the ground. He howled and yelled; but all were too busy to pay any attention to him, and at last his strength gave out, and he fell with a stunning thud upon the ground, where he lay gasping for breath, partially unconscious, but with no bones broken. After half an hour's interview, Bacon returned.
Giles Peram was admitted to his cell. "How are you, Robert ahem?" began Giles. "This is most extraordinary, I assure you, and you have my sympathy, and you may not believe it, no, you may not believe it, but I am sorry for you."
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