[To Have and To Hold by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookTo Have and To Hold CHAPTER VIII IN WHICH ENTERS MY LORD CARNAL 15/21
"And I like not such a fire-new, bejeweled scabbard.
Mine, you see, is out at heel." "I see," he said dryly. "The pinking of your doublet suits me not, either," I declared.
"I could make it more to my liking," and I touched his Genoa three-pile with the point of my rapier. A loud murmur arose from the crowd, and the Governor started forward, crying out, "Captain Percy! Are you mad ?" "I was never saner in my life, sir," I answered.
"French fashions like me not,--that is all,--nor Englishmen that wear them.
To my thinking such are scarcely true-born." That thrust went home.
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