Where shall you be ?" "At the Three Crowns, down the street here." "Right." The lattice was closed again very gently.

Captain Barker laid his hand upon the tall man's sleeve.
"Jemmy, we're out of this action.

I thought I knew what it meant to lay-to and have to look on while a fight went forward; but I didn't.
Come--" They passed out of the courtyard and down the street towards the Three Crowns.

Beneath the sign of that inn there lounged a knot of officers wearing the flesh-coloured facings of the Buffs, and within a young baritone voice was uplifted and trolling, to the accompaniment of clinking glasses, a song of Mr.Shirley's: You virgins that did late despair To keep your wealth from cruel men, Tie up in silk your careless hair: Soft Peace is come again!.

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