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Redcap; who, with the landlady, had come to the door of the room, and had been amusing themselves by the contemplation of this sentimental scene. "What a fool that wild Hirishman was not to bleed her for more!" said the landlady; "but he's a poor ignorant Papist. "Suppose we have some more out of 'em?" said Mr. Redcap. "What prevents us?
"Ay, weel, weel," replied Will, who began to see the great importance of the enterprise, while his curiosity to know who the object was had considerably increased. "That tower has its 'redcap sly. E'en Lord Soulis' Hermitage is no better guarded. Ance there, and awa wi' care, as we say o' Gilnockie as a rendezvous for strayed steers. But who is she, my Lord?"
"And who was it, then?" said Ursula; "for if I had not been sent for, I had not been here at this time of night, I promise you!" "It was the old Scotch fool Jenny, who did it out of her own head, I suppose," said Margaret; "for she has been stunning me these two hours about you and Mother Redcap." "Me and Mother Redcap!" said Dame Ursula, "an old fool indeed, that couples folk up so.
"It did seem like it, Tom." "On a hot day like this here, sir. Boys, too, as wouldn't work a scull if they warn't obliged. Why, they'd been and done it, and was cutting away as hard as they could." "It does look likely, Tom." "That's it, sir. We've got the bearings of it now. It were Big Jem and young Redcap, warn't it?" "One of the boys had on a red cap, Tom. I remember now."
"Now my grandfather, who was a sensible man, knew that a joke might be carried too far; therefore he whipped out his pass and presented it, and so in a moment set everything right. "'Good, very good, citizen! said old Redcap. 'This is as it should be. Thy Captain says that thou art a brave soldier of the Republic, and that is the best that the best of us can be.
But when it was restored, Markham went on spying in silence, while Brown, keeping fast possession of his own telescope, communicated his observations. 'Ay, I see them. Where are they? He's climbing now. There's a breaker just there, will wash them off, as sure as they're alive! I don't see 'em. Yes, I do there's Redcap! There's something stirring on the rock!
It is said, and I believe it to be a fact, that cattle, and even fowls, when brought from the interior, take the coast-fever, and often perish with it. Certain it is that they do not flourish. King Freeman came on board, dressed in his uniform frock, with two epaulettes, a redcap, and checked trowsers. He received some powder and bread from the Commodore, and some trifles from the ward-room.
They would mak a bonny nest o' screighing hoolets, if we had them safely under the care o' the sly redcap o' that auld keep: they wad hatch something else than scandal, and leasin-makin, and reports o' the instability o' Border rights, the auld jauds." "I will be content with one of them," rejoined the Warden. "Ha! ha! I see, I see," replied Will.
"Perhaps she would not care." "I am sure she would," said Raffaelle, "for she does love you, Luca, though she cannot say so, being but a girl, and Signor Benedetto against you. But that redcap you tamed for her, how she loves it, how she caresses it, and half is for you, Luca, half for the bird!" Luca kissed him.
Away rode the gallant Macshane with the money necessary to effect this; and it must be mentioned, as highly to his credit, that he never once thought of appropriating the sum to himself, or of deserting his comrades in any way. His ride from Worcester had been a long one. Corporal Brock had been relieved by Mr. Redcap, the latter by Mr. Sicklop, the one-eyed gentleman; Mrs.
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