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You" he turned to Billy Priske "had best come with us. 'Tis possible I may need you all for witnesses." He walked me out and downstairs and through the lodge gateway; and so under Temple Bar again and down Fleet Street through the throng; till near the foot of it, turning up a side street out of the noise, we found ourselves in face of a gateway which could only belong to a prison.
And the young Englishman is he yet alive? 'O Princess, I answered again, 'I did not go all the way to the old camp, but only so far that the man Priske could not mistake his road to it. Then, having put him in the way, I turned back and have travelled night and day.
For the while, therefore, the Widow Paolantonuccio has no one to carry on the custom of the country; nor will have, until a husband offers. 'For pity's sake, Sir John, said I, `get me out of this! Tell them that if any man has been courting this woman 'tis not I, William Priske, but another in my image. 'Why, to be sure! cried Sir John. 'It must have been the Invincible St. Cyprien!
"So these two, Cavalier or so the story reached me lived content in their silly hut, nor ever thought it worth their while to descend to the plain and lose what they had found. . . . But you were good enough just now to inquire concerning my own poor adventures." "Billy Priske," said I, "has given me some account of them up to your parting from my father at Calenzana, was it not?" "At Calenzana."
My father called to Billy Priske who hung in the rear of the monks bidding him fetch my uncle Gervase in from the stables to the State Room, and so, without another word, motioned to his visitors to follow. To this day I can hear the shuffle of their bare feet on the steps and slabs of the terrace as they hurried after him to keep up with his long strides.
"And that the Princess plainly guessed, by her manner at parting, when I set out with the man Priske. She was sorry enough then to say good-bye to me," he added, half boastfully. "Nevertheless," answered Marc'antonio with some sarcasm, "she appears to have neglected to confide to you what she feared." Stephanu spread out his hands.
Come, no nonsense, or you'll start me asking what's become of the last man I married ye to." "Sir," interposed my uncle, "I know not the head or tail of this quarrel. But this man Priske is my brother's servant, and if he told the lady what she alleges, for the credit of the family I must correct him. In sober truth he's a bachelor, and no more the father of twelve than I am."
"Ay, but for love," answered my father. "In love no man can be too prompt." "I believe you, sir," hiccuped Mr. Fett, who had been drinking more than was good for him. "And so, begad, does your man Priske. Did any one mark, just now, how like a shooting star he glided in the night from Venus' eye? Love, sir?" he turned to me. "The tender passion? Is that our little game?
I chose a granite boulder for my shelter, gained it, crawled under its lee, and, peering over, had whipped my gun to my shoulder and very nearly pulled the trigger was, in fact, looking along the sight when I found that I was aiming at a man; and not only that, but at Billy Priske! I believe, on my faith that thenceforward he owed his life to the shape of his legs so unlike a deer's.
The meal over, my father proposed to me to return to the creek and fetch up a three days' supply of provisions from the ship, leaving Mr. Fett and Billy Priske to guard the camp. We asked him if the two explorers had returned. He answered "No," and that Mr. Fett had strolled up into the wood in search of chestnuts, leaving him sentry over the camp.
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