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The Bagman obeyed with wonderful celerity, and I heard the purse chink as the footpad dropped it into the pocket of his greatcoat. "As for you," said he, turning to me, "you get on your way and never mind me; forget you ever had ten guineas and don't go a-riskin' your vallyble young life; come up with you!" and he motioned me into the tilbury with his pistol.
Among these historians are William of Malmesbury, who belonged properly to the twelfth century; Geoffrey of Monmouth, who preserved for us the stories of Arthur, of Lear, and Cymbeline; Gerald de Barri, or Giraldus Cambrensis; Matthew Paris, a Benedictine monk, of St. Albans; Henry of Huntingdon; Gervase of Tilbury; and Roger de Hoveden.
A body of twenty-two thousand foot and a thousand horse, under the command of the earl of Leicester, was stationed at Tilbury in order to defend the capital. The principal army consisted of thirty-four thousand foot and two thousand horse, and was commanded by Lord Hunsdon.
Is it Tilbury and a tender, or Galleons and the docks? 'Galleons. Twelve-forty, Thursday. 'Thanks. Change, please. I can't see very well will you count it into my hand?
He then took the great-coat with the large collar, which the groom had left behind in the tilbury, and put it on his back; then he took off Cavalcanti's hat, which he placed upon his own head, and finally he assumed the careless attitude of a servant whose master drives himself. "But, tell me," said Andrea, "am I to remain bareheaded?"
At the booking-office he was told that the special train for the Sutlej had just gone. Another train for Tilbury was leaving in five minutes. "You will get in soon after the special," the booking-clerk assured him. "Plenty of time to see your friends before she sails. Why, she's not due to sail till twelve o'clock. There'll be a deal of luggage to be got on board."
It was a pity this scene had not occurred in daylight, for it was curious to see this rascal throwing himself heavily down on the cushion beside the young and elegant driver of the tilbury. Andrea drove past the last house in the village without saying a word to his companion, who smiled complacently, as though well-pleased to find himself travelling in so comfortable a vehicle.
"If you are going," he said, "I may as well hand over the price of that Tilbury. When will they send it home?" "To-morrow, undoubtedly." "And I am to pay fifteen hundred franks for it!" "Just half its value!" observed M. de Simoncourt, with a shrug of his shoulders. Dalrymple smiled, counted the notes, and handed them to his friend.
In half an hour he came back with my husband's answer. "Send for a doctor." This put Price into a fever of mingled anger and perplexity, and not knowing what else to do she telegraphed to Martin on his ship, telling him that I was ill and asking what doctor she ought to call in to see me. Inside an hour a reply came not from Tilbury but from Portsmouth saying: "Call Doctor of Brook Street.
I say miscalled, for, though a loyal subject of her Majesty, and one who hath borne arms at Tilbury Fort in defence of her Majesty, it inflamed my choler, as a plain and blunt man, that her Mightiness should so degrade her dignity.
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