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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL He has an English heart, True as his native oak; He acted well his part, Though but few words he spoke. He has the John Bull "sand," And potent is his fist; His weapon is his hand--Its fire never missed. In the distance, the enraged baron sees, flying--Like a guilty wretch, the coward lord. Madly, With furious spring, and tiger-like, on him he thunders, To revenge his murdered spouse, and his broken heart. The progress of lord Ethelbert's cortege was so prosperous that by ten o'clock on the following morning it drew up in front of the principal inn at Marlborough, a distance of forty miles from Longleat. Skillet had arrived in advance and ordered rooms and refreshment for distinguished travelers, so that when they entered the inn everything was ready for their comfort and recreation. Skillet, having first assured himself of the proper accommodation of his master and the ladies, betook himself to the bar room to indulge in a little self-comfort. He sat down at a table, and ordered a bottle of wine; and, taking a long clay pipe from a rack which stood upon the table, he filled it, and leaning back in his seat he felt as happy as any lord in the realm. He had sat an hour, and had emptied the bottle, and smoked several pipes; when a party of four men came into the bar-room, and sat at a'table opposite him. They were rough in appearance, and jolly and hilarious in manners; and, although they ordered a gallon of ale, yet they seemed to be already sufficiently under the exhilarating influence of "John Barleycorn." "I za down we th' harrystockracy!" said one of the men. "Hi '11 vit vor th'queen Bess;" said another, "but dam and blarst them vellers that 're ateing up th' country. Tha be like th' grave-yard: tha zwellow every thing, and gee nuthing bac...
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