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The horse in the stable, I dare say, belonged to some belated traveler caught like ourselves in a storm afar from an inn. Marked you how she answered me not when I spoke on't? How the wind howls, and how blue the taper burns! 'Sblood! I'd sooner be out in the storm." "I would not," observed Master Wainwright. "One drenching a day is enough for me.
'Sblood! do you think I AM EASIER TO BE PLAYED ON THAN A PIPE? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot PLAY upon me. Hamlet. Why did you laugh when I said, Man delights not me? Guild. We coted them on the way, and thither are they coming to offer you SERVICE.
We were challenged by the guard, and caused sufficient amazement when we appeared in the hall before the master, who was a bachelor of fifty. "'Sblood, Nick Temple!" he cried, "what are you doing here with that big Congo for a dog? The sight of him frightens me." The negro, indeed, was a sight to frighten one. The black mud of the swamps was caked on him, and his flesh was torn by brambles.
While he thus vented his rage, the door again opened, and Quilt Arnold rushed into the room, bleeding, and half-dressed. "'Sblood! what's this!" cried Jonathan, in the utmost surprise. "Quilt Arnold, is that you?" "It is, Sir," sputtered the janizary. "I've been robbed, maltreated, and nearly murdered by Jack Sheppard." "By Jack Sheppard!" exclaimed the thief-taker.
There fell a slight pause, and then Leicester said: "To-morrow at daylight, eh?" "Now, my lord, now!" "We have no seconds." "'Sblood! 'Tis not your way, my lord, to be stickling in detail of courtesy." "'Tis not the custom to draw swords in secret, Lempriere of Rozel. Also my teeth are not on edge to fight you."
I could not avoid acknowledging the watch, and was rising in great confusion, when a boisterous old squire who sat beside me, exclaimed, slapping me on the shoulder, "'Sblood, lad! thou'rt the man as has seen the ghost!" The attention of the company was immediately turned to me; if my face had been pale the moment before, it now glowed almost to burning.
"'Sblood!" exclaimed Jonathan, hastily thrusting the ring into his vest, and taking up a heavy horseman's pistol with which he had felled Blueskin, "I thought you'd been senseless." "Is she alive?" repeated the widow. "What's that to you?" demanded Jonathan, gruffly. "Oh, nothing nothing," returned Mrs. Sheppard. "But pray tell me if her husband has escaped?"
There fell a slight pause, and then Leicester said: "To-morrow at daylight, eh?" "Now, my lord, now!" "We have no seconds." "'Sblood! 'Tis not your way, my lord, to be stickling in detail of courtesy." "'Tis not the custom to draw swords in secret, Lempriere of Rozel. Also my teeth are not on edge to fight you."
Place that confidence in the young lady which she so well deserves, and I am certain you will be the happiest father on earth." "I confidence in her?" cries the squire. "'Sblood! what confidence can I place in her, when she won't do as I would ha' her? Let her gi' but her consent to marry as I would ha' her, and I'll place as much confidence in her as wouldst ha' me."
"It is the devil in person!" said Aramis, hastening forward. "He escapes us," growled Porthos, pushing his huge shoulder against the hinges, but in vain. "'Sblood! he escapes us." "So much the better," muttered Athos. "I thought as much," said D'Artagnan, wasting his strength in useless efforts. "Zounds, I thought as much when the wretch kept moving around the room.
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