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She never was in the slightest degree in the way when she was Hyacinth's companion and actually lived with her, so I don't see how she possibly can be now by going to see her occasionally. Really, I rather like Anne Yeo. 'Oh, you do, said his wife furiously; 'then I regret to say we differ very radically. It is most unnecessary that you should like her at all.
"I want the horn, I don't want your soul; it's somewhat of a stale sole, for aught I know; and there are plenty of fresh ones in the bay." "That! no, nor twenty of them." The boy thought over what a good knight-errant would do in such case, and then answered, "Tell you what: I'll fight you for it." "Thank 'ee, sir! "Break the jackanapes's head for him, Yeo," said Oxenham.
Let it howl on! for there is more mist than ever salt spray made, flying before that gale; more thunder than ever sea-surge wakened echoing among the cliffs of Smerwick bay; along those sand-hills flash in the evening gloom red sparks which never came from heaven; for that fort, now christened by the invaders the Fort Del Oro, where flaunts the hated golden flag of Spain, holds San Josepho and eight hundred of the foe; and but three nights ago, Amyas and Yeo, and the rest of Winter's shrewdest hands, slung four culverins out of the Admiral's main deck, and floated them ashore, and dragged them up to the battery among the sand-hills; and now it shall be seen whether Spanish and Italian condottieri can hold their own on British ground against the men of Devon.
Can they know that we are English, and the avengers of the Indians?" "I suspect they just take us for Spaniards, and want to sell their cocoa-nuts. See, the canoe is laden with vegetables." "Hail them, Yeo!" said Amyas. "You talk the best Spanish, and I want speech of one of them."
"Sir," said Yeo, "I have a feeling on me that the Lord's hand is against us in this matter.
There was a simple majesty about old Yeo when he broke forth in utterances like these, which made his comrades, and even Amyas and Cary, look on him as Mussulmans look on madmen, as possessed of mysterious knowledge and flashes of inspiration; and Brimblecombe, whose pious soul looked up to the old hero with a reverence which had overcome all his Churchman's prejudices against Anabaptists, answered gently,
"Lundy!" said Yeo. "The south end! I see the head of the Shutter in the breakers! Hard a-port yet, and get her close-hauled as you can, and the Lord may have mercy on us still! Look at the Spaniard!" Yes, look at the Spaniard! On their left hand, as they broached-to, the wall of granite sloped down from the clouds toward an isolated peak of rock, some two hundred feet in height.
Behind them lay two long, low, ugly-looking craft, at sight of which Yeo gave a long whew. "Galleys, as I'm a sinful saint! And what's that big one inside of them, Robert Drew? She has more than hawseholes in her idolatrous black sides, I think." "We shall open her astern of the galleys in another minute," said Amyas. "Look out, Cary, your eyes are better than mine."
Their arrival settled the matter. All the Spaniards fell but three or four, who scrambled down the crannies of the cliff. "Let not one of them escape! Slay them as Israel slew Amalek!" cried Yeo, as he bent over; and ere the wretches could reach a place of shelter, an arrow was quivering in each body, as it rolled lifeless down the rocks. "Now then! Loose the Indians!"
"Not underneath those fort guns, I beg leave to say," quoth Yeo. "If the Philistines will but come out unto us, we will make them like unto Zeba and Zalmunna." "Quite true," said Amyas. "Game cocks are game cocks, but reason's reason." "If the Philistines are not coming out, they are going to send a messenger instead," quoth Cary. "Look out, all thin skulls!"
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