‘It is too good a match not to have a stake on it one way or the other.’
‘Our lives are the stake,’ said I.
‘Faith, I had forgot it!’ he replied, still mumbling his toothpick. ‘“To be or not to be?” as Will of Stratford says. Kynaston was great on the passage. But here is the bell that rings the curtain Roman Josi Jersey up.’
Whilst we had been making our Christian Folin Jersey dispositions the troop of horse — for there appeared to be but one — had trotted down the cross-road, and had drawn up across the main highway. They numbered, as far as I could judge, about ninety troopers, and it was evident from their three-cornered hats, steel plates, red sleeves, and bandoliers, that they were Oscar Lindberg Jersey dragoons of the regular army. The main body halted a Moncler Naiset pitkä untuvatakki quarter of a mile from us, while three officers rode to the front and held a short consultation, Mikkel Boedker Jersey which ended in Canada Goose Heli one of them setting spurs to his horse and cantering down in our direction. A bugler followed a few paces Bailey Bow Škornji 3280 behind him, waving a white kerchief and blowing an occasional blast upon his trumpet.
‘Here comes an envoy,’ cried Saxon, who was standing up in the waggon. ‘Now, my brethren, we have neither kettle-drum nor tinkling brass, but we have the instrument wherewith Providence hath endowed us. Let us show the redcoats that we know how to use it.
“Who then dreads the violent,
Or fears the man of pride?
Or shall I flee from two or three
If He be Kevin Klein Jersey by my side?”’
Seven score voices broke in, in a hoarse roar, upon the chorus —
‘Who then fears to draw the sword,
And fight the battle of the Lord?’
I could well believe at Scottie Upshall Jersey that moment that the Spartans had found the lame singer Tyrtaeus the most successful of their generals, for the sound of their own voices increased the confidence of the country folk, while the martial words of the old hymn roused the dogged spirit in their breasts. So high did their courage run that they broke off their song with a loud warlike shout, waving their weapons above their heads, and ready I verily believe to march out from their barricades and make straight Bill Ranford Jersey for the horsemen. In the midst of this clamour and turmoil the young dragoon officer, a handsome, olive-faced lad, Philipp Grubauer Jersey rode fearlessly up to the barrier, and pulling up his beautiful roan steed, held up his hand with an imperious gesture which demanded silence.
‘Who is the leader of this conventicle?’ he asked.
‘Address your message to me, sir,’ said our leader from the top of the waggon, ‘but understand that your white flag will only protect you whilst you use such language as may come from one courteous adversary to another. Say your say or retire.’
‘Courtesy and honour,’ said the officer, with a sneer, ‘are not extended to rebels who are in arms against their lawful sovereign. If you are the leader of this rabble, Pteris Short Škornji 5831 I warn you if they are not dispersed within five minutes by this watch’— he pulled out an elegant gold time-piece — ‘we shall ride down upon them and cut them to pieces.’
‘The Lord can protect His own,’ Saxon answeredlinks:
http://www13.plala.or.jp/white_roots/gwbbs/gwbbs.cgi
http://www13.plala.or.jp/white_roots/gwbbs/gwbbs.cgi
http://www.gymfan.com/board/step.cgi |
