[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookWestward Ho! CHAPTER V 35/36
'S life, sir, sorrow is making a hawbuck of me.
Sit down, my dear sir! my worshipful sir! or rather come with me into my room, and hear a poor wretched man's story, for I swear before God the men are fled; and my poor boy Eustace is not home either, and the groom tells me that his devil of a cousin has broken his jaw for him; and his mother is all but mad this hour past.
Good lack! good lack!" "He nearly murdered his angel of a cousin, sir!" said Sir Richard, severely. "What, sir? They never told me." "He had stabbed his cousin Frank three times, sir, before Amyas, who is as noble a lad as walks God's earth, struck him down.
And in defence of what, forsooth, did he play the ruffian and the swashbuckler, but to bring home to your house this letter, sir, which you shall hear at your leisure, the moment I have taken order about your priests." And walking out of the house he went round and called to Cary to come to him. "The birds are flown, Will," whispered he.
"There is but one chance for us, and that is Marsland Mouth.
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