21/21 As to you, old boy'-- he turned to Hugh--'you shall have Miggs (her that I promised you, you know) within three days.Mind.I pass my word for it.' Hugh thanked him heartily; and as he did so, his laughing fit returned with such violence that he was obliged to hold his side with one hand, and to lean with the other on the shoulder of his small captain, without whose support he would certainly have rolled upon the ground.. |