[The Cornet of Horse by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cornet of Horse CHAPTER 3: A Kiss and its Consequences 22/27
He will give me any money he may have in the house.
I may as well fill my valise too, while I am about it; and he's got a pair of pistols, too, that he will give me." It was clearly the best course to take, and Rupert trotted forward on his way, while Hugh galloped back at full speed.
In a quarter of an hour the latter drew rein at his father's door. "Hullo, Hugh, lad," the farmer, a hearty man of some fifty years of age, said, as he came to the door, "be'est thou? What art doing on the squire's horse? He looks as if thou had ridden him unmercifully, surely ?" In a few words Hugh related what had taken place, and told him of his own offer to go to the wars with Rupert. "That's right, lad; that's right and proper.
It's according to the nature of things that when a Holliday rides to the war a Parsons should ride behind him.
It's always been so, and will always be so, I hope.
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