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A thousand pardons so ho! so ho!" He patted the horse, and it stood as still as a statue, filling up the centre of the passage. The groups resettled; Randal approached the rider. "Frank Hazeldean!" "Ah, is it indeed Randal Leslie?" Frank was off his horse in a moment, and the bridle was consigned to the care of a slim 'prentice-boy holding a bundle. "My dear fellow, how glad I am to see you.
"Some trading vessel may sight us in the nick o' time," hopefully suggested Joe. "Never say die!" "Trust most honest skippers to give the Inlet a wide berth," was the lugubrious reply. "This harbor was used by pirates afore Blackbeard's time. I was a silly 'prentice-boy, same as you, Joe, wi' Cap'n Willum Kidd when we lay in here to caulk his galley for the long voyage to Madagascar."
He is mean and ostentatious at the same time, insolent and servile, does not know whether to treat those he converses with as if they were his porters or his customers: the prentice-boy is not yet wiped out of him, and his imagination still hovers between his mansion at and the workhouse.
Barnard should report any day that a discouraged 'prentice-boy had left town for his country home, all the bells could instantly be set to work to speak articulately, in language regarding which the dullest imagination need not be at loss, "Turn again, Higginbottom, Lord Mayor of Boston!" I have suggested the propriety of introducing this alphabet into the primary schools.
'Such a shop, says the customer, 'stands well, and there is a good stock of goods in it, but there is nobody to serve but a 'prentice-boy or two, and an idle journeyman: one finds them always at play together, rather than looking out for customers; and when you come to buy, they look as if they did not care whether they showed you any thing or no.
To these they have added other types, which every Andalusian can recognise as old friends the sharp-tongued harridan, the improviser of couplets with his ridiculous vanity, the flower-seller, and the 'prentice-boy of fifteen, who, notwithstanding his tender years, is afflicted with love for the dark-eyed heroine.
There are within here but a small number of us knights and squires who have loyally served our lord the King of France even as you would serve yours in like case; but we would suffer greater evils than ever men have had to endure rather than consent that the meanest 'prentice-boy or varlet of the town should have other evil than the greatest of us.
A thousand pardons so ho! so ho!" He patted the horse, and it stood as still as a statue, filling up the centre of the passage. The groups resettled; Randal approached the rider. "Frank Hazeldean!" "Ah, is it indeed Randal Leslie?" Frank was off his horse in a moment, and the bridle was consigned to the care of a slim 'prentice-boy holding a bundle. "My dear fellow, how glad I am to see you.
Jack Cockrell's teeth chattered but not with cold as the boat bobbed away from the side of the Revenge. Presently Joe recognized the pirate at the steering oar as a petty officer who had often befriended him. This fellow's swarthy, pockmarked face crinkled in a smile as he flourished his broad hat and yelled: "Stab my gizzard, but here's the London 'prentice-boy a-cruisin' on his own adventure."
This he accomplished after great difficulty and had to whistle and wait for a response before he could be sure of Jack Cockrell's whereabouts. "What luck, Joe?" was the plaintive question. "I'd sooner starve than be left alone in this dungeon." "Behold the dashing 'prentice-boy with another hairbreadth escape to his credit," replied the hero.
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