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The general heard him to the end, asking a brief question here and there. "You can have the leave certainly, Captain Scudamore, I know that it is needless for me to point out the risks that you will run, both from the French and guerillas. I think that it might be an advantage if I give you a note which you can, in case of absolute necessity, show to any French officer."
However, he is a man in ten thousand, and we must not be vexed about any of his crotchets, because he has never had children to talk about; and he gets out of soundings when he talks about mine. I wish Lady Scudamore was come back. She always agrees with me, and she takes a great load off my shoulders." The girls laughed at this, as they were meant to do.
Unshipping the rudder and laying one oar astern, Scudamore fetched along the inner row of piles, for he durst not pass under the drawbridge, steering his boat to an inch while he sat with his face to the oar, working noiselessly.
"Oh, please, aunt, don't call me Thomas; it is a dreadful name; it is almost as bad as Tommy. Please call me Tom. I am always called Tom by every one." "I am not fond of these nicknames," Miss Scudamore said. "There is a flippancy about them of which I do not approve." "Yes, aunt, in nicknames; but Tom is not a nickname; it is only a short way of speaking.
Henry Irving, when he played Petruchio, had been toiling in the provinces for eleven solid years, and not until Rawdon Scudamore in "Hunted Down" had he had any success. Even that was forgotten in his failure as Petruchio. What a trouncing he received from the critics who have since heaped praise on many worse men!
As he spoke, he stood leaning on Richard's arm, and behind them stood Lady, still as a horse of bronze. 'I will but drop the portcullis, said the warder, 'and then I will carry thee to thy room in my arms. But not a cursed roundhead shall enter here, I swear. 'Let us through at once, said Scudamore, trying the imperative. 'Not if the earl himself gave the order, persisted the man.
I can give thee no rank, for I have no regiment in the making at present, but it may please his majesty to take care of thee, and give thee a place in my lord Glamorgan's regiment of body-guards. The prospect thus suddenly opened to Scudamore of a wider life and greater liberty, might have dazzled many a nobler nature than his.
We were boy and girl together fed rabbits, flew kites, planted weeds to make flowers of them, played at marbles; she may love me a little, roundhead as I am. 'By heaven, I will try her once more! Who knows the heart of a woman? said Rowland through his teeth. 'If thou should gain her, Scudamore, and afterward she should find thee unworthy? 'She would love me still.
Tom had now lost all nervousness, and was standing eagerly watching the fight, when a ball knocked his shako off. The general happened to turn around at the moment. "That was a narrow escape," he said with a smile. "What is your name, lad?" "Scudamore, sir," Tom answered. "Scudamore Scudamore. Yes, I remember the name now. You are one of the lads General Craufurd spoke to me about.
Captain Van Oort had picked up some English, and his wife could use tongue and ears in French, while Scudamore afforded himself and them some little diversion by attempts in Dutch. Being of a wonderfully happy nature for happiness is the greatest wonder in this world he could not help many a wholesome laugh, in spite of all the projects of Napoleon.
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