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'Tis not meet nor fitting that such an one should be punished for the crime of a refugee. Sir Guy shall be made to see it properly. He shall! He shall!" "But now thee must go to bed," exclaimed Mrs. Owen alarmed by the girl's excitement. "Thee can talk again with the lads, but now to bed."
"I can be ready to-night if you wish it, Captain Samson," he said, with a flush on his usually pale face. Beside Mrs Trench there sat a sturdy little boy. He was the bosom friend of Ben a bright ruddy fellow of fourteen, overflowing with animal spirits, and with energy enough for three lads of his size.
I don't know, but come on, me lads, and we'll do him again. "He turned in at a little narrer entry-like, and went stumblin' up a flight of dirty stairs. I caught hold of Jonadab's coat tails and pulled him back. "'Where you goin', you crazy loon? I whispered. 'Can't you see he's three sheets in the wind? And you haven't told him what Kelly you want, nor nothin'.
For to have explained with more insistence would infallibly have deepened their suspicions of wounded vanity. But it did seem hard to be obliged to feel a brute for refusing to be one. The landlord, thanks to my importunities, managed after some further delay to secure a couple of lusty lads, relatives, I suspect, of the discarded fair ones, and with them we eventually set out.
Then, when they turned the corner, black with wrath, there were the lads gathered about the church-porch each with his weapon, and each white and silent, waiting for what should fall. "Now you wonder where we were. We were in the church, my brother and I; for our people had put us there against our will, to keep us safe, they said.
Get together the birds, my lads." Widgeon and Small obeyed, finding them already tied, and slinging them over their shoulders. "Now, Mark, wake up your companion," said the captain. "He ought to be able to walk after eight hours' rest."
The party took the light from her hand, and went into the room, where they perceived the bed empty and the window open. "Devil a bit of a proctor here anyhow," cried one of them, "and the window open. He's off hurrah! my lads, he can't be far."
But I might have known that he wouldn't accept my offer after his refusal of an inside place with me this morning, and after riding all those miles from York to-day in the bitter cold. Heigh-ho, the quarrel won't be of my seeking anyhow." These two lads were both sons of colliery owners, and both pupils of the ancient school of St. Peter of York, the most notable foundation north of the Humber.
There was a little bustle of preparation, and then a period of waiting, during which Joe Cross carefully sighted the loaded gun, depressing her muzzle all he could, the two lads the while listening excitedly to the stir and orders which came from the Spanish three-master's deck. "Oh, fire, Joe fire!" whispered Rodd. "We shall have another shot from her directly."
"I trust that you may be right, Oliver," said old Mr Donnithorne, looking with much concern on the pale countenance of the poor smith, who still lay stretched out, with only a slight motion of the chest to prove that the vital spark had not been altogether extinguished. "No fear of him, he's sure to come round," replied Oliver; "come, lads, up with him on your backs."
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