silently about, scarcely daring to wear black for those whom they had loved and lost, lest it should be twisted into an act of treason.
We were scarce back in the wool-house once more when a file of guards with a sergeant entered, escorting a long, pale-faced man with protruding teeth, whose bright blue coat and white silk breeches, gold-headed sword, and glancing shoe-buckles, proclaimed him to be one of those London exquisites whom interest or curiosity had brought down to the scene of the rebellion. He tripped along upon his tiptoes like a French dancing-master, waving his scented kerchief in front of his thin high nose, and inhaling aromatic salts from a blue phial which he carried in his left hand.
‘By the Lard!’ he cried, ‘but the stench of these filthy wretches is enough to stap one’s breath. It is, by the Lard! Smite my vitals if I would venture among them if I were not a very rake hell. Is there a danger of prison fever, sergeant? Heh?’
‘They are all sound as roaches, your honour,’ said the under-officer, touching his cap.
‘Heh,Casual Tall Czyścibut 5804, heh!’ cried the exquisite, with a shrill treble laugh. ‘It is not often ye have a visit from a person of quality, I’ll warrant. It is business, sergeant,Buty Nike KD 8, business! “Auri sacra fames”— you remember what Virgilius Maro says, sergeant?’
‘Never heard the gentleman speak, sir — at least not to my knowledge, sir,’ said the sergeant.
‘Heh,Moncler Polo Skjorte, heh! Never heard him speak,Belstaff Nové Panther Bunda, heh? That will do for Slaughter’s, sergeant. That will set them all in a titter at Slaughter’s. Pink my soul! but when I venture on a story the folk complain that they can’t get served, for the drawers laugh until there is no work to be got out of them. Oh,Bradley Beal Drakter, lay me bleeding,France Drakt, but these are a filthy and most ungodly crew! Let the musqueteers stand close,Canada Goose Shelburne Parka, sergeant, lest they fly at me.’
‘We shall see to that, your honour.’
‘I have a grant of a dozen of them,Mexico Drakt Barn, and Captain Pogram hath offered me twelve pounds a head. But they must be brawny rogues — strong and brawny, for the voyage kills many, sergeant, and the climate doth also tell upon them. Now here is one whom I must have. Yes, in very truth he is a young man, and hath much life in him and much strength. Tick him off, sergeant, tick him off!’
‘His name is Clarke,’ said the soldier. ‘I have marked him down.’
‘If this is the clerk I would I had a parson to match him,’ cried the fop, sniffing at his bottle. ‘Do you see the pleasantry,Canada Goose Heli, sergeant. Heh, heh! Does your sluggish mind rise to the occasion? Strike me purple, but I am in excellent fettle! There is yonder man with the brown face, you can mark him down. And the young man beside him,Canada Goose Wyndham Parka, also. Tick him off. Ha, he waves his hand towards me! Stand firm, sergeant! Where are my salts? What is it,UGG Casual Czyścibut, man, what is it?’
‘If it plaize your han’r,Moncler Edward,’ said the young peasant, ‘if so be as you have chose me to be of a pairty, I trust that you will allow my vaither yander to go with us also.’
‘Pshaw, pshaw!’ cried the fop, ‘y
相关的主题文章：
http://www.matsue-yado.com/otoku/clip.cgi
http://www13.plala.or.jp/white_roots/gwbbs/gwbbs.cgi
http://www.rockclimbing.com/cgi-bin/gear/search.cgi |
