Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 8, 2025
"We have not the money!" cried the whole Colony in chorus; and, as if by concert, the company in mass, male and female, cleared the threshold and disappeared, headed by Andy Plade, who kept all the subscriptions in his pockets, and terminated by Freckle, who was caught at the base of the stairs and held for security. The Colony, as a body, will appear no more in this transcript.
Hugenot to inquire how his friend came to possess so much money; for Hugenot was not a clever man, and somewhat in dread of Andy Plade, who, as his school-mate, had thrashed him repeatedly, and even now that one had grown rich and the other was a vagabond, the latter's strong will and keen, bad intelligence made him the master man.
Simp said, bitterly, that he would give four hundred and ninety-five dollars for five; but Plade pressed for a direct answer to his original proffer, and Simp cried "Yes," with an oath. "Then listen to me! there is no reason to doubt that your neighbors have made full crops for two years cotton, sugar, tobacco. All this remains at home unsold and unshipped yours with the rest.
"This vessel must get to sea to night," he said. "I will not hazard trouble with the French authorities by keeping you here. Spend the afternoon ashore; we sail at eleven o'clock precisely; if at that time you come aboard, I will take you." Plade protested his gratitude, but the skipper motioned him to peace. "You seem to be a gentleman," he added; "if I find you so, you shall be my purser.
Sez I, "not mutch we wont," and I made a powerful effort to get awa from her. "This is plade out," I sed, whereupon she jerkt me back into the seet. "Leggo my coat, you scandaluss female," I roared, when she set up the most unarthly yellin and hollerin you ever heerd.
Plade hastened to the skipper's side, and urged him for pity and mercy to hasten seaward. The other motioned him back, coldly, and the boatswain piped all hands upon deck. Lafitte nor Kidd never looked down such desperate faces as this gristly privateer, when his buccaneers were around him. "Seamen," he spoke aloud, "you are afloat!
"Voila!" cried Plade, counting out forty louis; "the day after to-morrow I guarantee to own eighteen hundred francs." It did not occur to Mr.
Was he not obtuse, sounding, shallow? Mr. Plade alone, of all the Americans in Paris, asserted from the first that Hugenot was far-sighted, close, capable. Indeed, he was so earnest in this enunciation that few thought him disinterested. It was Master Simp who heard a bold step on the stairs that night, and a resolute knock upon his own door. "Arrest for debt!" cried Mr.
"Ah! then, Muster Gashford," said Flinders, with the deepest pathos, "it's yer own mother would plade wid ye for the poor boy's life, av she was here think o' that. Sure he's young and inexparienced, an' it's the first offince he's iver committed " "No, not the first" interrupted Gashford. "The first that I knows on," returned Flinders. "Tell me does Westly know of this proposal of yours?"
Let me ring for your old beverage, absinthe." The soldier halted, irresolutely; the liquor came before he could refuse. When once his lips touched the vessel, Mr. Plade knew that there was still a chance for life. In an hour Mr. Pisgah was impotent from intoxication; his musket was flung down the stairway, the door was bolted upon him, and the prisoner was gone.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking