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I am not to blame; indeed I am not, my dear young friend. I would have given ten thousand rix dollars to have met you, that I might prove my gratitude for your noble defence of us, and our preservation at such a risk.
He was never a very cheery fellow in appearance, and now he looked like a demoniac. He went straight to Joe Rix and the skeleton form of the Pedlar. He raised one finger as he looked at them. "I've heard," said Lebrun. "Lord Nick likewise shall hear." Joe Rix changed color.
"We need not disturb the commanding officer until breakfast-time, but there is no doubt in my mind this man can give important evidence. I will take the responsibility. Have Rix placed in charge of the guard at once." And when the corporal reappears it is with a file of men, armed with their Springfields. Between them Rix is marched away, a scared and haggard-looking man.
"Because you look most damnably like one," says the officer, impulsively, and then, ashamed of having said such a thing to one who is powerless to resent, he tempers the wrath with which he would rebuke the man's insubordination, and, after an instant's pause, speaks more gently. "Come here, Rix. Stand up like a man and tell me your trouble.
With a tear in her eye, and smiles in the dimples of her plump cheeks, Dame Spikeman looked on the adorning of the lady for the marriage ceremony, by the cunning fingers of Prudence Rix.
He stepped back to watch this blow take effect. To his unutterable astonishment the little man had not moved. His chin still rested upon the back of his hand, and the smile which was on the lips and not in the eyes of Donnegan remained there, fixed. "Donnegan," muttered Joe Rix, "if we can't get you, we'll get rid of you. You understand?" But the other continued to smile.
I know that in this, as in some other matters, there were many of us who chafed a little at the idea of regular army discipline among us, but we know now the colonel was right. As for Rix, he turned out to be a drunkard before we got within rifle-range of Virginia." "Yet he was retained as quartermaster-sergeant." "Because Hollins shielded him and kept him out of the way.
Crabats is an old form of Croats the name of the inhabitants of Croatia. p. 66, l. 38. Rix dollar is the English form of Reichsthaler or imperial dollar. p. 67, l. 6. "Husband" is here used in the sense of "thrifty person." p. 69, l. 18. A ducat was a gold coin generally worth about nine shillings. p. 70, l. 29.
It shocked Joe Rix, but being a diplomat he avoided friction by changing his tactics. "Between you and me," he said calmly enough, "I took what I heard with a grain of salt. There's something about Nick that ain't common, no matter what they say. Besides, they's some men that nobody but a fool would stand up to. It ain't hardly a shame for a man to back down from 'em."
He told me back there at Boonsboro' that he would ride right over to camp time I was going back with the colonel through the Gap." "Boonsboro'! Why, man, that was several days after the battle that you went back with the colonel's ambulance! Then you've seen him since we have. Where was it?" But Rix has recovered his wits, such as they are.
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