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Each of these persons handled a pike, carrying it at an angle different from that of the others, and each of them gazed with painfully attentive stare at the oaken table near the hearth upon which Hercules Halfman sat learnedly expounding the mysteries of the pike drill, while Thoroughgood stood between him and the awkward squad to illustrate in his own person and with the pike he carried the teachings of the instructor.
"My name is Thoroughgood," he answered, and he added, civilly enough, as if conscious of some air of gentility in his companion, "John Thoroughgood, at your service." "A right good name for a right good fellow, if I know anything of men," Halfman approved. "And I take it that you serve a right good lady." "My lady is my lady," Thoroughgood replied, simply. "None like her as ever I heard tell of."
"My lady!" she cried; "my lady, John Thoroughgood rides up the avenue on a foundering horse!" Brilliana gave a great cry and went ghost-white. "Dear God, the letter! I had forgotten the letter!" Tiffany slipped from the room. Evander answered Brilliana's cry very calmly. "For the second, so had I. But, indeed, dear lady and friend, I know its terms." "You cannot be sure," Brilliana whispered.
In the Bennett muster, Christopher Reynolds, evidently a head man in overseeing the creation of a plantation, comes under the designation. Also, Adam Thoroughgood, who later was named a member of the Council, is first mentioned in the colony under a list of "servants." Adam Thoroughgood House Princess Anne County
Thoroughgood, confused between jealous thoughts of Tiffany and envious admiration of the manner in which Halfman handled the gentry, was as heedless as his inferiors, and was therefore taken too much by surprise to offer the slightest resistance when Evander, suddenly springing from between his guards, snatched from his supine arms the captured sword that had been intrusted to his keeping.
"We shall test the strength of Colonel Cromwell's love." She called, loudly, "John Thoroughgood." Thoroughgood advanced to her from where he stood removed. "Ride with a white flag," Brilliana went on; "ride hard to my Lord Essex's army, wherever it may be. Where is my Lord Essex, Rufus?" "They have retired, I think, upon Warwick," Rufus said, doubtfully.
"Roast or boiled, boiled, fried, or larded, all's one, all's none. We'll be mumbling shoe-leather soon." She sighed heavily at the thought, and moved slowly towards the door at the end of the hall beneath the gallery. Halfman, unheeding her, had turned to the table and was intently poring over the large map that lay there together with a loaded pistol. Thoroughgood gave orders to the men.
Thoroughgood eyed Halfman with a sudden air of distrust. "You never told me you were a play-actor," he growled. "You spoke only of soldiering." Halfman laughed flagrantly in his face. "Godamercy, man, there has been scant time to tell you my life's story. We have had other cats to whip. Yes, I was a play-actor once, and played for great poets, for men whose names have never tickled your ears.
"As you please," he muttered, as he returned the gun to Thoroughgood and, turning on his heel to hide his vexation, joined his comrades, who seemed all to share, discomfited, in his rebuke, and to deprecate the anger of Brilliana.
Evans and Ruffy, of Budge Row; Thoroughgood and Whiting, of the present day; and Messrs. Gye and Balne, Gracechurch Street, City. The largest bills printed at that period were a two-sheet double crown; and when they commenced printing four-sheet bills, two bill-stickers would work together.
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