On this side stood the instruments with which the
latter piece of pleasantry had been effected,—namely, a bucket filled with paint
and a brush: on that was erected a trophy, consisting of a watchman's rattle, a
laced hat, with the crown knocked out, and its place supplied by a lantern, a
campaign wig saturated with punch, a torn steen-kirk and ruffles, some halfdozen staves, and a broken sword. “How odd that I should almost spring into your arms just on my doorstep!” she
remarked gaily. Why don’t you make sure before you rush out like that
upon a stranger?”
“You were with my wife,” Hill repeated sullenly. "
Abraham grinned, and silently followed his master, who, as soon as they reached
the audience-chamber, poured out a bumper of spirits, and presented it to him. I’ve had a headache all day. ‘Nothing would do for her but to come here,’ grumbled Hilary, wiping his
heated brow with a pocket handkerchief dragged from his immaculate white
uniform breeches. Two persons
possessing a more comfortable stock of assurance could not be readily found.
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