have met you in the way of business since then. Have you forgot the skirmish on the Rhine bank, when you did flash your snapphahn at me? Sapperment! Had some rascally schelm not stabbed my horse I should have swept your head off as a boy cuts thistles mit a stick.’
‘Aye, aye,Leicester City Drakt Barn,’ Saxon answered composedly, ‘I had forgot it. You were taken, if I remember aright, but did afterwards brain the sentry with your fetters, and swam the Rhine under the fire of a regiment. Yet, I think that we did offer you the same terms that you were having with the others.’
‘Some such base offer was indeed made me,Parajumpers Damskie Denali,’ said the German sternly. ‘To which I answered that,Moncler Fabreges, though I sold my sword, I did not sell my honour. It is well that cavaliers of fortune should show that an engagement is with them — how do ye say it?— unbreakable until the war is over. Then by all means let him change his paymaster. Warum nicht?’
‘True,Casual Tall Czyścibut 5804, friend, true!’ replied Saxon. ‘These beggarly Italians and Swiss have made such a trade of the matter, and sold themselves so freely, body and soul, to the longest purse, that it is well that we should be nice upon points of honour. But you remember the old hand-grip which no man in the Palatinate could exchange with you? Here is my captain,Belstaff Gangster Blouson Bunda, Micah Clarke. Let him see how warm a North German welcome may be.’
The Brandenburger showed his white teeth in a grin as he held out his broad brown hand to me. The instant that mine was enclosed in it he suddenly bent his whole strength upon it, and squeezed my fingers together until the blood tingled in the nails, and the whole hand was limp and powerless.
‘Donnerwetter!’ he cried, laughing heartily at my start of pain and surprise. ‘It is a rough Prussian game, and the English lads have not much stomach for it.’
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‘What, another!’ he cried. ‘Why, you must be still pringling from the first. Nay, if you will I shall not refuse you,Peuterey Ženy Bunda, though I fear it may weaken your hold upon your sword-hilt.’
He held out his hand as he spoke, and I grasped it firmly, thumb to thumb,Parajumpers Männer Kodiak, keeping my elbow high so as to bear all my force upon it. His own trick was, as I observed,Atletico Madrid Drakt Damer, to gain command of the other hand by a great output of strength at the onset. This I prevented by myself putting out all my power. For a minute or more we stood motionless, gazing into each other’s faces. Then I saw a bead of sweat trickle down his forehead,Kanadanhanhi Miehet Cg Manitoba Jacket, and I knew that he was beaten. Slowly his grip relaxed, and his hand grew limp and slack while my own tightened ever upon it, until he was forced in a surly, muttering voice to request that I should unhand him.
‘Teufel und hexerei!’ he cried, wiping away the blood which oozed from under his nails,Tailor Quilted Bunda, ‘I might as well put my fingers in a rat-trap. You are the first man that ever yet exchanged fair hand-grips with Anthony Buyse.’
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