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If he sees a pair of lovers whispering in a garden alley or the embrasure of a window, or a pair of glances shot across the room from Jenny to the artless Jessamy, he falls to musing on former days when, etc. etc. These things follow each other by a general law, which is not as old as the hills, to be sure, but as old as the people who walk up and down them.
It would have mattered nothing now to this Highlander, this fighting Argyll, what had been the reason animating his opponent. It was enough that he saw a weapon bared. Too late, then, to reason with John Law, "Beau" Law of Edinboro', "Jessamy" Law, the best blade and the coolest head in all the schools of arms that taught him fence.
Uttering a furious oath, Tom swung about and smote fiercely with right and left. But ducking the blows, Jessamy slipped nimbly aside, shaking his head in mild reproof. "Come, come, Tom," said he; "can't ye see you're as harmless as a bleatin' lamb or cooin' dove? I've no wish to hurt ye, so let's ha' done and get on with our prayers " "Fight!" roared Tom, beside himself with fury.
"Only everything!" she answered, with another disdainful gesture of her head. "I am extremely sorry that my face displeases you, Diana," said I. "So'm I!" she nodded. "Though it ain't your fault, I s'pose." "If you allude to my bruises and black eyes " "They're nearly well," said Jessamy. "I don't!" said Diana. "Then pray what particularly displeases you in my face this evening?" I enquired.
"Perry," said the Tinker as, turning from the highway, Diogenes ambled down a narrow lane, "you've forgot to ask about this here watch o' mine." "Well, how is it, Jerry?" "Never was such a watch! Look at it! Reg'lar as the sun! Which riles Jessamy. Y' see, his ain't to be depended on nowadays, owing to a boot " "A boot, Jerry?" laughed Diana. "At Maidstone Fair, Ann!
Hereupon Jessamy put on his hat, paused to grasp the horny hands extended to him, then lifted a large canvas bag to his shoulder, but at my shout he turned and flourished his hat in salutation as we drove up. "Why, Jessamy," exclaimed Diana, as he placed the bag in the cart, "what's come t' your face?" And now I saw his comely features were disfigured by an ugly blue weal.
Here I got down from the cart that I might better behold the speaker, who now turned to glance at me with a pair of the kindliest blue eyes I had ever seen. "Jessamy," said Diana, "this is my my friend Peregrine as do want you to teach him the game." "The game," repeated Jessamy, shaking his head a little ruefully, "the game's all vanity and vexation o' spirit!
For a long, breathless moment Jessamy stood thus above the great, huddled form of his insensible antagonist, and for that moment no one moved, it seemed, and never a word spoken; then Jessamy sighed, shook his head, clasped his hands and looking up to heaven, prayed thus, none daring to interrupt: "Lord, seeing force and conflict was needful, let it not be in vain but forgive, I beseech Thee, my unholy joy therein.
"Stand off, ye vermin!" quoth Jeremy and, reaching down beneath the seat, whipped out a long-barrelled pistol and levelled it full into Tom's big, evil face, whereupon my trembling hand loosed the saucepan I had clutched as a weapon and I stared from the tense features of the two men to the calm, coldly contemptuous face of Diana. Then spake Jessamy Todd: "All right, Jerry!
"What, George," enquired one, "ha' you found Jessamy?" "No!" answered my uncle, slapping me on the shoulder. "But the next best thing, Devenham " "And a demned queer-looking thing it is, George!" added the recumbent gentleman, viewing me with a pair of blue eyes, one of which exhibited signs of recent punishment. "None the less, Jerny," answered uncle George, "it is my nephew.
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