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For he had never forgiven the old outrage put upon him; and though it had been to his interest to keep quiet during the last attack, under Commander Stickles for the sake of his secret gold mine yet now he was in a position to give full vent to his feelings.
Once, before the attack on Glen Doone, they had a narrow escape from the King's Commissioner; for Captain Stickles having heard no doubt the story of John Fry, went with half a dozen troopers, on purpose to search the neighbourhood. Now if he had ridden alone, most likely he would have discovered everything; but he feared to venture so, having suspicion of a trap.
Let me make you another, John. You are quite low-spirited." "And what was the lady's name?" I asked; "and what became of the little girl? And why did the woman stay there?" "Well!" cried Jeremy Stickles, only too glad to be cheerful again: "talk of a woman after that! As we used to say at school Who dragged whom, how many times, in what manner, round the wall of what?"
Not a blessed morsel have I touched for more than twenty-four hours. 'Surely then you must be quite starving, sir, my sister replied with the greatest zeal; for she did love a man with an appetite; 'how glad I am that the fire is clear! But Lizzie, who happened to be there, said with her peculiar smile, 'Master Stickles must be used to it; for he never comes back without telling us that.
I imagine that it was the founder of the house who paved his river bed with marble slabs, smoothing the stickles into a long clear slide. Labour, no doubt, was cheap or forced, and the Elizabethan fancy lavish.
But they shall pay for it, as dearly as if it had been a captain." "And how was it you were struck by a bullet, and only shaken in your saddle? Had you a coat of mail on, or of Milanese chain-armour? Now, Master Stickles, had you?" "No, Mistress Lizzie; we do not wear things of that kind nowadays. You are apt, I perceive, at romances.
Then, knowing that those I had left behind would be watching to see the last of me, and might have false hopes of my coming back, I mounted again with all possible courage, and rode after Jeremy Stickles.
And upon the whole, I prefer them much to the people of my own sex, as goodness of heart is more important than to show good reason for having it. And so I said to Jeremy, "You have been ill-treated, perhaps, Master Stickles, by some woman or other?" "Ah, that have I," he replied with an oath; "and the last on earth who should serve me so, the woman who was my wife.
Upon this, Master Stickles suggested, and as I thought very sensibly, that the two counties should unite, and equally contribute to the extirpation of this pest, which shamed and injured them both alike.
He fairly sprang to the door, his face dark and frightened. He spoke to no one, neither did he notice the sturdy form of Mrs. Stickles standing there waiting to be admitted into the vestry. The Bishop looked up as the door opened and Mrs. Stickles entered. She always proved the dominating factor wherever she went, and what her size could not accomplish was well supplied by her marvellous tongue.
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