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Updated: June 2, 2025
At this point of the argument, Messieurs Split-log, Round-head, and Walk-in-the-Water, having finished their kinni-kinnick, and imbibed a due quantum of whiskey: possibly, moreover, not much entertained by the conversation that was carried on in a language neither of them understood but imperfectly, rose to take their leave.
Maria describes him as a sort of Puritan; and he might have worn his gold chain with honour in one of our old round-head families, in the service of a Lambert, or a Lady Fairfax. But his morality and his manners are misplaced in Illyria. He is opposed to the proper levities of the piece, and falls in the unequal contest. His quality is at the best unlovely, but neither buffoon nor contemptible.
That by which he is known to his soldiers, his familiar name, is Round-head; and his real name, received from brave and worthy parents, Georges Cadudal, or rather Cadoudal, tradition having changed the orthography of a name that is now historic. Georges was the son of a farmer of the parish of Kerleano in the commune of Brech. The story goes that this farmer was once a miller.
I will lay my life thou lovest the round-head, and art but a traitress for all thy goodness. 'I am indeed traitress enough to love any roundhead gentleman better than a royalist knave, said Dorothy; and turning from him she sought the grand staircase.
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