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"I wish I was twenty 'ear younger. I'd be off like a shot." "Where, Tonkin?" "Off to fight they Germans, to be sure. Why, no young chap worthy of the naame caan't stay 'ome, tha's my veelin'. Tell 'ee wot, they Germans 'ave bin jillus o' we for 'ears, and tes a put-up job. They do 'ate we, and main to wipe us off the faace of the globe. I d' 'ear that the Kaiser ev got eight millyen sodgers.
"I went off to our lodgings, but took good care not to go in. And it was well I didn't, for, half an hour later, a troop of sodgers came up, and some of them went in. "They were led by that black villain who used to come wid messages from Mr. O'Brian, and I have no doubt it was he who set the sodgers upon you.
"Have you had your breakfast, Jacob?" said Mrs Beazeley. "No," replied I; "I was obliged to go up to Mr Turnbull's, and that detained me." "No more sodgers, Jacob," said Tom; "father and I eat them all." "Have you?" replied Mrs Beazeley, taking two more red herrings out of the cupboard, and putting them on the fire to grill; "no, no, master Tom, there's some for Jacob yet."
"I have been breaking my heart all night. Sure I thought you were at the bottom of the river." "Not this time, Larry, though it was a pretty close thing. Did you see it all?" "Sure and I did," Larry said. "I was sitting on a doorstep, watching the house, when I saw the sodgers coming along.
You a sodger!" he cried, with a sudden burst of scorn. "Ye auld wife, the sodgers would bray at ye like cuddies!" As at the drawing of a curtain, Archie was aware of some illogicality in his position, and stood abashed. He had a strong impression, besides, of the essential valour of the old gentleman before him, how conveyed it would be hard to say.
I suppose it won't run to a carriage and pair, mother, or to a welvet gownd for you, that would be splendatious. Just fancy, mother, a gownd all over welvet, and just the same colour as the sodgers' coats. My eye! won't that be grand?" "And a nice sight I should look in it," Mrs. Holl said, laughing at the thought of herself in scarlet robes.
They were laid on their backs on benches; their hands were bound doon to the foot o' the forms, an' burnin' matches were putt atween every finger, an' the sodgers blew on them to keep them alight. The governor, ye see, had ordered this to gang on withoot stoppin' for three oors! Some o' the puir fallows were deid afore the end o' that time, an' I'm thinkin' the survivors'll be crippled for life."
The wretched scamp recognized the fact and felt its power, and it was with a superstitious reverence asserting itself through his native extravagance that he raised his grimy hand to his cap in military salute and became respectfully rigid. "Then the sodgers were huntin' YOU?" she said thoughtfully, lowering her weapon.
"'Proceed with it, then, with a murrain to you, said Lieutenant Brown, impatiently, 'or, by heaven, I'll beat it out of you with the flat of my sword. "'Well, then, cried the negro, angrily, 'the tory Captain Lewis came to our house last night with some sodgers, and carried off Miss Caroline.
"It was in '94 when I was last here. The sodgers had 'sieged it for a whole month, and were about to give it up, 'cause they couldn't get a gun up on that 'ere hill you sees there.
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