10/20 Did he return, may I ask ?" "He did not, sir. The Saracens slew him before the Holy Sepulchre, and in fact the undertaking was, as you would regard it, unprofitable. But it gave us the palmer-shells on our coat of arms-- argent, a cross sable, in each corner three escallops of the last. "We keep the scallops, sir." "Scallops!" grunted the apothecary. "Better for you, Susanna, if your husband had ever found the oyster!" Garrett Wesley glanced at him from under his badger-gray brows. |