11/38 "And tell his lordship that, with his good leave, I don't stir from here till morning, if I can keep awake. There is a stir in the fort, and I expect them out on us." "Tut, man! their hearts are broken. We know it by their deserters." "Seeing's believing. If they are false to their masters, they'll be false to us." "Well, go thy ways, old honesty; and Mr.Secretary shall give you a book to yourself in the 'Faerie Queene'-- 'Sir Monoculus or the Legend of Common Sense,' eh, Edmund ?" "Monoculus ?" "Ay, Single-eye, my prince of word-coiners--won't that fit ?--And give him the Cyclops head for a device. |