[The Blue Pavilions by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookThe Blue Pavilions CHAPTER V 5/20
Quick, I say--here, somebody kick that one-eyed dawdler! What the plague? Haven't there been kings enough in England these last fifty years that you waste a good afternoon on the look-out for the newest ?" "You'll be careful of my arch, Captain ?" the landlord hazarded nervously.
"His Majesty'll be coming along presently--" "I'll be careful of my bees.
D'ye want me to leave them there till he passes, and maybe to lose the half of my swarm down the nape of his royal neck? I can't help their wearing the orange: they were born o' that colour, which is more than you can say, landlord, or any man Jack here present.
But I can prevent their swarming and buzzing in his Majesty's path like any crowd of turncoats.
Ah, here comes Tristram with the ladder! Set it here, my boy.
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