ave me when — God of mercy, what is that?’
‘’Tis but my horse in the stall below,’ I answered.
‘I thought it was the dragoons,’ quoth the clerk, wiping away the New York City drops which had started out upon his brow. ‘You and I would have gone forth and smitten them.’
‘Or Dame Parajumpers Desert Dunjakker climbed into the flour-bin,’ said I.
‘I have not yet made clear to you how I came there,’ he continued. ‘Having ridden, then, some leagues from the field, and noting this windmill, it did occur to me that a stout man might single-handed Landsholds 17/18 make it good against a troop of horse. We have no great love of flight, we Tetheridges. It may be mere empty pride, and yet the feeling runs strong in the family. We have a fighting strain in us ever since my kinsman followed Ireton’s Real Madrid army as a sutler. I pulled up, therefore, and had 2018 Off-White Sandals & Slides dismounted to take my observations, when my brute of a charger gave the bridle a twitch, jerked itself free, and was off in an instant over hedges and ditches. I had, therefore, only my good sword left to trust to. I climbed up the ladder, and was engaged in planning how the defence could best be conducted, when I heard the clank of hoofs, and on the top of it you did ascend from below. I retired at once into ambush, from which I should assuredly have made a sudden outfall or sally, had the flour not so choked my breathing that I felt as though I had a two-pound loaf stuck in my gizzard. For myself, I am glad that it has so come about, for in Saudi Arabia Fodboldtrøjer my blind wrath I might unwittingly have done you an injury. Hearing the clank of your sword as you did come up the ladder, I did opine that you were one of King James’s minions, the captain, perchance, of some troop in the fields below.’
‘All very clear and explicit, Master Argentina Dame Fodboldtrøjer Tetheridge,’ said I, re-lighting my pipe. ‘No doubt your demeanour when I did draw you from your hiding-place was also a mere cloak for your valour. But enough of that. It is to the future that we have to look. What are your intentions?’
‘To remain with you, Captain,’ said he.
‘Nay, that you shall not,’ I answered; ‘I have no great fancy for your companionship. Your overflowing valour may bring me into ruffles which I had otherwise avoided.’
‘Nay, nay! I shall moderate my spirit,’ he cried. ‘In such troublous times you will find yourself none the worse for the company of a tried fighting man.’
‘Tried and found wanting,’ said I, weary of the man’s braggart talk. ‘I tell you I will go alone.’
‘Nay, you need not be so hot about it,’ he exclaimed, shrinking away from me. ‘In any case, we had best stay here until nightfall, when Grækenland Fodboldtrøjer we may make our way to the coast.’
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