This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... great riding-boots. "Off with my boots, Giles, you knave!" he bade, and flung himself down in the great chair by the fireplace. "Now then, Morris, this is the young rogue you told me of?" Gervase shrank back on the form. A moment before he had feared the green-coated keeper as his chief persecutor; but now he thought ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... great riding-boots. "Off with my boots, Giles, you knave!" he bade, and flung himself down in the great chair by the fireplace. "Now then, Morris, this is the young rogue you told me of?" Gervase shrank back on the form. A moment before he had feared the green-coated keeper as his chief persecutor; but now he thought of the man as a friend, and hoped wildly that somehow he would shield him from Dunch. He groped with one hand, in the hope of touching the keeper's sleeve, but without looking at the man, for he dared not take his eyes away from Dunch's face. "Come over hither, sirrah," bade Dunch, and Gervase went, because the keeper shoved him, but he halted at a careful arm's-distance. Dunch had off his boots by now, and sat in his gray woollen stockings. One of his men had just fetched him a flagon of small beer, and he took a long draught and wiped his lips ere he turned to Gervase and looked him up and down. The boy stood his ground, and, if his eyes were frightened, at least he did not lower them before the Major's frowning gaze. "My word!" said Dunch, and took up his flagon again. "By the saucy port of that younker I'd know he came of the Darrell blood, even if I met him in Tartary." Then he clapped down the flagon, and said sharply, " So you've been trespassing on my land, they tell me, sirrah. D'ye know what I do with lads that trespass? I lock 'em down in my lower cellar where the rats are." Gervase liked rats as little as he liked the dark, but he felt vaguely that if he cried it would gratify the Roundhead soldier. "You'd better not lock me down in your old cellar," he said, in a scared voice. "If you do, my Brother Henry H make you sorry." At that moment he felt a rea...
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