Part 25 (2/2)
But he can't hurt you, even if he tried Now let go, sweetest, and I'll say you're a good girl”
”Archie, you're cruel; and I love you Don't leave me Fn-n-n, ehn-n-n, ehn-n-n!” Sweetest was in tears
”This is ridiculous!” I exclaimed ”Coo to Mahomet; and to state the alternative would be an insult to your erudition Coet away out of this fearful place,” sobbed the wretched obstruction ”Do what I ask you this once, and I'll be like a slave the rest of ht's over,” replied Archie, resu on his mind, whoever he is; but he'll have to pay the penalty of his dignity”
”Too true,” said I to nity is like that of Ponity I would gladly exchange for what Golds iy at a Chinahotter and darker, and mosquitos livelier You will bear inon the track which skirted the river tirateful tothe parallel track which ran by the fence Deain paused to eavesdrop Good! One felloas relating an anecdote suited to gentle Providence for the tendency of the yarn, I darted diagonally across the clearing to intercept these brethren, and was rapidly nearing the party, when Pup, thinking I was after so, crossed my course in the dark I tripped over him, and landed some yards ahead, in one of the five patches of nettles in the county of Moira By the time I had cleared myself and recovered my equanimity, the horsemen had improved their pace, and were out of reach
A few le horse, co behind me at a slow trot I paused to make one more solicitation
When the horseman ithin twenty yards of where I stood, he pulled up and disround for soht, and refused to lead; whereupon, after giving the animal a few kicks, he threw the reins over a post of the fence close by, and continued his search, lighting freshhie, fair young , sir,” said I urbanely
With that peculiar form of rudeness which provokesto my salutation
”Are you satisfied?” I asked sardonically, switchingfrom the effect of the nettles
He darted towards his horse, but before he reached the bridle asped
”I want your ----,” I replied sternly ”I' full up of the admiration of the Gods; I want the admiration oftrait of Adauilt Come! off with them!” and with that I snapped the laces of his bal on his back ”And seeing that I ed for a whole suit as for a pair of ----, I'll just take the co you whatever may be underneath Let me impress upon you that I don't atterounds,”
I continued, peeling off his coat and waistcoat with the celerity of a skilful butcher skinning a sheep for a bet ”I think we ard the transaction as a pertinent illustration of Pandulph's aphorism--to wit, that 'He who stands upon a slippery place, makes nice of no vile hold to stay hiet you to favour onist suddenly gave tongue
During an eventful life, I have frequently had occasion to observe that oht place, her first i; whereas, man resists or subround out between his teeth
Therefore, when the legal owner of the ---- which I was in the act of unfastening, suddenly splintered the firht flashed on my mind that he was one of those De Lacy Evanses we often read of in novels; and in two seconds I was fifty yards away, trying to choose between the opposing anomalies of the case
A little reflection showed the balance of probability strongly against a disguise which I have never met with in actual life; but by this ti rapidly fronito by a hap-hazard audience ical point of view, so I straightway vaulted over the fence, and lay down a some cockspurs
Within the next few minutes, several people on horseback caive the exact nuht have been half a dozen
A good deal of aniht, in a fe the fence, close to
The mosquitos orse than ever I pulled two handfuls of crop to replace the switches I had throay on atte to cajole the Chevalier d'Eon out of his ---- My eneration no longer I would follow the river road for eight or ten miles, and then wait in soan to blaht on when Archie unconsciously gave et home in the dark was, of course, entirely out of the question; all that I could do was to ai along at the double, when a lighted , a couple of hundred yards from the road, attracted my attention Like Frankenstein's unhappy Monster, I had a hankering, just then, for hu but horrified repulse You will notice that Mrs Shelley, with true wo, in so many words, that the student omitted to equip his abnormal creation with a pair of ----
But Frankenstein's oversight in this matter will, I think, sufficiently account for that furtive besiegehbourhood ofrefused to accept rebuff
With ----, man is whole as the eneral as the casing air Without ----, unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art The ---- standard is the Labarun shall we conquer
Since that night by the Murray,in front of a draper's shop seeht, IN HOC SIGNO VINCES!