“You are the type that I want to marry someday, you’ve
got a beautiful body, such pretty eyes. “Why should one pretend?” she whispered. ”
“You are very kind,” Anna said. Wood was once a favourite of yours. . It consisted of a full-dress coat of
brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise
richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was
termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample
as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. Still
—there you are!”
He paused. That dress! Only a man—and an
unworldly one—would have permitted you to proceed on your adventure dressed
in a gown thirty years out of date. ’
***
Mrs Chalkney, a long-time friend of the late Mrs Alderley, had been delighted to
oblige that lady’s son. She may be
an infuriating little devil, but she is far from stupid. Whatever you need to do, it is your business. . “Dear old Daddy,” she said, “he’ll make a fearful fuss. “Good, I’m so glad, Lucy. There MULSACK and SWIFTNECK, both prigs from their birth,
OLD MOB and TOM COX took their last draught on earth:
There RANDAL, and SHORTER, and WHITNEY pulled up,
And jolly JACK JOYCE drank his finishing cup!
For a can of ale calms,
A highwayman's qualms,
And makes him sing blithely his dolorous psalms
And nothing the transit to Tyburn beguiles
So well as a draught from the Bowl of Saint Giles!
"Singing's dry work," observed the stranger, pausing to take a pull at the bottle.
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