the darkness.
‘While we have such volunteer scouts as this,’ I remarked, ‘it is easy to see which side the country folk have in their hearts. Hooker hath still the better part of two troops with him, so surely he can hold his own. But how are we to make our way back?’
‘Zounds, Clarke! let us extemporise a fortress,’ suggested Sir Gervas. ‘We could hold Willy Caballero Drakter this farmhouse against all comers Harry Kane Koszulka until Hooker returns, and then join our forces to his. Now would our redoubtable Colonel be in his Mathias Corujo Drakter glory, to have a chance of devising cross-fires, and flanking-fires, with all the other refinements of a well-conducted leaguer.’
‘Nay,’ I answered, ‘after leaving Major Mateo Musacchio Drakter Hooker in a somewhat cavalier fashion, it would be a bitter thing to have to ask his help now that there is danger.’
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‘If you will take my advice, gentlemen,’ said the highwayman, Jesse Gonzalez Drakter trotting up upon a beautiful bay mare, ‘I should say that your best course is to allow me to act as guide to you as far as the camp. It will be strange if I cannot find roads which shall Bayern Munich Dzieci 16/17 baffle these blundering soldiers.’
‘A very wise and seasonable proposition,’ cried Sir Gervas. Nike Air Max Modern ‘Master Marot, a pinch from my snuff-box, which is ever a covenant of friendship with its owner. Adslidikins, man! though our acquaintance at present is limited to my having nearly hanged you on one occasion, yet I have a kindly feeling towards you, though I wish James Milner Drakter you had some more savoury trade.’
‘So do many who ride o’ night,’ Marot answered, with a chuckle. ‘But we had best start, for the east is whitening, and it will be daylight Bogdan Lobont Drakter ere we come to Bridgewater.’
Leaving the ill-omened farmhouse behind us we set off with all military precautions, Marot riding with me some distance in front, while two of the troopers covered the rear. It was still very dark, though a thin grey line on the horizon showed that the dawn was not far off. In spite of the gloom, however, our new acquaintance guided Cristian Zapata Drakter us without a moment’s halt or hesitation through a network of lanes and bypaths, across fields and over bogs, where the waggons were sometimes up to their axles in bog, and sometimes were groaning and straining over rocks and stones. So frequent were our turnings, and so often did we change the direction of our advance, that I feared more than once that our guide was at fault; yet, when at last the first rays of the sun brightened the landscape we saw the steeple of Bridgewater parish church shooting up right in front of us.
‘Zounds, man! you must have something of the cat in you to pick your way so in the dark,’ cried Sir Gervas, riding up to us. ‘I am right glad to see the town, for my poor waggons have been crelinks:
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