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Updated: May 7, 2025
Within the threshold, with his back to me, stood a grey-bearded servant, and totter'd so that the lantern shook in his hand. It sham'd me to lift a pike against one so weak. Instead, I dropp'd it with a clatter, and leap'd forward. The old fellow jumped like a boy, turn'd, and fac'd me with dropp'd jaw, which gave me an opportunity to thrust four or five bullets, not over roughly, into his mouth.
I crawl'd to my feet, rested a moment to stay the giddiness, and totter'd across to the door, where I lean'd, listening and gazing south. No strip of vapor lay on the moors that stretch'd all bathed in the most wonderful bright colors to the lip of the horizon. The air was like a sounding board.
By this means I shall take care, that my metropolis totter'd not thro' its own weight; that the head be no longer too big for the body; that the extremes, now wasted and pinn'd in, be restored to their due share of nourishment, and regain with it their natural strength and beauty: I would effectually provide, That the meadows and corn fields of my dominions, should laugh and sing; that good chear and hospitality flourish once more; and that such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the Squirality of my kingdom, as should counterpoise what I perceive my Nobility are now taking from them.
"Shall be presently," answered I, "if you lead me not to Master Tingcomb." He scrambled up briskly and totter'd out of the kitchen into a stone corridor, I after him. Along this he hurried, muttering all the way, and halted before a door at the end. Without knocking he pushed it open, and motioning me to enter, hasten'd back as he had come. "Come in," said a voice that seem'd familiar to me.
We on the t'other part being disordered at it, lest yet he might seem to do nothing, got hold of the totter'd coat, and as spitefully roar'd, they had robb'd us of it: But our case was in no wise like theirs, and the rabble that came in to the out-cry, ridicul'd, as they were wont, the weaker side, in that the others laid claim to so rich a mantle, and we to a ragged coat, scarce worth a good patch.
"For her I pray'd, and for my father, too, My sisters dear, and the community; The king, whom yet by name alone I knew, And mendicant that, sighing, totter'd by. "Those days were matchless sweet; but they are perish'd, And life is thorny now, and dim, and flat; Yet rests their memory deeply fondly cherish'd; God! in thy mercy, take not take not that."
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