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"A tinker, Uncle." "Hum! Anything else?" "I saw Jessamy Todd fight the big fellow at the 'Ring o' Bells' this morning and " "What?" cried my uncle, on his feet in a moment. "You saw Jessamy fight? Oh, begad, Perry why couldn't you say so before?" "You believe this, then, sir?" "I do. Tell me all about it. I've heard rumours they say it was a clean knockout "
"I should like to meet Jessamy Todd," said I. "Well, so you will, if you pad the hoof long enough. But now, what o'clock is it?" "Half-past twelve," I answered, consulting my watch. "Yet surely it can't be so late?" "But it is look at the sun! And don't you feel 't is dinner time? There's a little tavern down the lane yonder let's go and eat." "Not unless I pay for it " "With no money?"
"Can ye walk, friend Tom?" "I think so." "Then up wi' you and along o' me into the 'Ring o' Bells'; I'll soon make ye comfortable, an' then you an' me will pray together, shall us, friend?" "As ye will!" mumbled Tom. So, having aided his late antagonist to rise, Jessamy turned to nod and smile at us. "Drive on, brothers," said he, "I must bide here awhile on the Lord's business, so drive on.
"In literature," writes M. Paul Morillot, "even if quality is wanting, quantity has some significance," and though we may share Scott's abhorrence for the whole "Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy tribe" of novels, we cannot deny the authoress the distinction accorded her by the "Biographia Dramatica" of being for her time, at least "the most voluminous female writer this kingdom ever produced."
I wish, though I don't see it in life, that people could be like Jenny and Jessamy, or my Lord and Lady Clementina in the story-books and fashionable novels, and at once under the ceremony, and, as it were, at the parson's benediction, become perfectly handsome and good and happy ever after." You wicked satirical creature, I can't abide you!
So we were bringing him down here, hoping to match him with Jessamy, or, failing him, some other good man. But the fool, not knowing Jessamy, get's himself thrashed, and the whole thing's a flam." "Jessamy has given up the game, Uncle." "I know, but he loves it still. And you saw the fight! Tell me of it no, wait the others must hear."
He checked suddenly and stood hushed and mute, for Jessamy had appeared, a glorified Jessamy, resplendent from top to toe; his boots shone superbly, his coat sat on him with scarce a wrinkle, but his chief glory was his shirt, prodigiously beruffled at wrists and bosom. The Tinker eyed these noble adornments in undisguised admiration. "Lord, Jessamy!" he exclaimed. "Lord, Jess!"
"And now, friend," said Jessamy, addressing the small man, who danced and capered no more but stood somewhat crestfallen, "'twould be well done, I think, to ask my young friend's pardon."
"He beat Gabbing Dick, anyway," said Diana suddenly, whereat I lifted drooping head and looked towards her gratefully, only to see her vanishing into the dingy little tent again. "Well, but " said the Tinker as she reappeared, "Gabbing Dick ain't a fighter like Jem Belcher or Gentleman Jack Barty or Jessamy Todd. Dick's a poorish creetur' "
On the following Friday it was decreed that the gallows should do its work. Two more days and there would be an end of "Jessamy" Law. That Wednesday night a covered carriage came to the door of the house of Knollys. Its driver was muffled in such fashion that he could hardly have been known.
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