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Of the two of 'em, I will say that Valentina takes it easier, for that dinner dress of Miss Prentice's must have jarred her some. But Valentina only stares for a minute, and then manages to work up one of them friendly smiles. Warrie don't get any of this by-play at all. Soon as he's through shootin' orders to the waiter, he turns to Valentina. "Well, well!" says he enthusiastic. "This is a treat.
"Whatever it may be, I am content to overlook it," said De Gondomar; "and, in sooth, the knaves had received some provocation." "Aweel, since your Excellency is disposed to view it in that light," rejoined James "since ye display such generosity towards your enemies, far be it from us to oppose your wishes. The order for the 'prentice's release shall be made out at the same time as Sir Jocelyn's.
After luncheon, he went for a stroll with Alice, and she told him how she had been passing the time. "Young Curtiss was here for a couple of days," she said. "General Prentice's nephew?" he asked. "Yes. He told me he had met you," said she. "What do you think of him?" "He struck me as a sensible chap," said Montague. "I like him very much," said Alice. "I think we shall be friends.
And here he was challenging me, who stood before him in a prentice's hodden grey! "Sir," I said, "I could wish you a better quarrel, but not more courtesy. Many a gentleman seeing me such as I am, would bid me send, ere he crossed swords with me, to my own country for my bor-brief, which I came away in too great haste to carry with me.
There was nothing remotely suggestive of unusual ability or force of character, and I thought as I studied him that the sting of George D. Prentice's bon mot about him was in its acrid truth. Said Mr. Before going any further in this narrative it may be well to state that the nomenclature employed is not used in any odious or disparaging sense.
Later, as soon as I was relieved, I hurried down to the 'Prentice's berth. I was anxious to speak to Tammy. There were a dozen questions that worried me, and I was in doubt what I ought to do. I found him crouched on a sea-chest, his knees up to his chin, and his gaze fixed on the doorway, with a frightened stare.
He was silent while she sobbed with her eyes against her coat-sleeve. But no change of expression came into the face that, for long years, he had trained to hide emotion before juries and witnesses. "I might have refused the task set me years ago when when I introduced you into Miss Prentice's school," he said, at last.
Never before had a coat been made in a single day, and stitched, too, more finely than anything he had ever seen; but, not wishing to raise his late 'prentice's ideas of himself, he merely grumbled out, "For a wonder you have done your work this time; so now take your wages, and be sure to come early Monday morn."
And he listened when Fulford and Will Marden, a young English man-at- arms with whom he had made friends, concerted how he should meet them at an inn the sign of the Seven Stars in Gravelines, and there exchange his prentice's garb for the buff coat and corslet of a Badger, with the Austrian black and yellow scarf. He listened, but he had not promised.
"Where did you git it, Mullendore?" His answer was a breath. "Toomey." "One thing more Where does Kate Prentice's father live? His address quick!" Teeters shook the wasted shoulders in his haste. The muddy blue-gray iris was divided in half by the closing upper lids. Beneath the glaze there seemed a last malicious spark.
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