Subject: aftershave

From: "Antony Horn" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:00:47 +0300

We was listed for overseas, with good chance of prize money, anda noblemans freedom.
Now what the devil should a dominie like you know about thecharacter of a gentleman of family? The power of the armed over the unarmed was in that moment notablyexemplified. As he stood among themAlastair was amazed alike at his shabbiness and his self-possession. It would facilitate our task if your lordshipwould lend me a horse better fitted for my weight.
But the poor mans mind was far from humour, forhis earnestness increased with his hearers cynicism. Tell me, sir, have you not publishedcertain writings? The misadventure,which at an earlier stage would have acutely embarrassed him, nowpassed unnoticed.
Of the doings of his Prince he had heard nothing, and hefretted every hour at the lack of news. In Georgia they would have been goodsoldiers in a fortnight.
You are a faithful if importunate friend, sir.
Then youll take the west side of England and make for Warrington?
Ireturn to Chastlecote, and if I can get no helpers I must een seekfor the lady alone. Now I wonder at whathostel Menelaus and Alcinous could have foregathered.
If he sees fit to disbandyou, good and well; if not, you march as he commands. He poured the stuff into a mulling pot, and turned his attention tothe edibles. I am a soldier of someexperience and few of the Princes advisers have seen a campaign.
Sit you down, sir, if your legs are dry,for I hear the kail coming. Therefore Alcinous has done with Phaeacia andreturns to the Prince as fast as horse will carry him. Then he turned to the house, rememberingMr Kyds recommendation to the landlord.
Not a second must I lose inpushing north to join my Prince.
Myheart goes with you, and heres to a quick journey.
Alastair said, as he fitted a clumsy foot into astirrup.
Ill draw you an itinerarium, for Iwhiles travel that gait.
Then to thetutor: What would you have me do?
He seemed absorbed in his own reflections, andhad suddenly won a kind of rude dignity.
The patch of road appeared to beuninhabited, without the shabbiest beerhouse to cheer it.
The November dusk fell soon, and wet greyness gave place to wetmirk. Heres an old friend arrived intime to share my supper. Come in by the fire, sir, and no a wordtill youre warmed and fed. It would facilitate our task if your lordshipwould lend me a horse better fitted for my weight.
He was exchangingjocularities with his servant.
A sudden rush would haveswept the little man off, had not Methody Sam plucked him back.
I am a soldier of someexperience and few of the Princes advisers have seen a campaign. There is a chance, a hope, and, oh sir, I beseech you to pursueit.
That is precisely the damnable folly of it. General Oglethorpe is much beholden toyou.