"Well," she said, in reply, "I may have done Jack an injustice. "Here
are a pair of gloves and a nosegay for you. And you talk like that! What the devil have you been up to, to land in this
bog?" It was a cast at random. Any one less courageous than himself would have
abandoned the attempt from a conviction of its utter hopelessness; but, though it
might for a moment damp his ardour, it could not deter him. Boys,
at the time of which we write, were attired like men of their own day, or certain
charity-children of ours; and the stripling in question was dressed in black plush
breeches, and a gray drugget waistcoat, with immoderately long pockets, both of
which were evidently the cast-off clothes of some one considerably his senior. ‘What is it?’ asked Roding. "Aha!" exclaimed Jack, with a roguish wink, "I've caught you,—have I?"
The carpenter's daughter was fair and free—
Fair, and fickle, and false, was she!
She slighted the journeyman, (meaning me!)
And smiled on a gallant of high degree. If any of you—or all of you feel the same in six months’
time from to-day, will you come, if you care to, and see me then?”
There was a brief silence. Alban's
to-night. Fatigued by his previous exertions,
and incumbered by his fetters, he was by no means—though ordinarily
remarkably swift of foot—a match for his foes, who were fast gaining upon him.
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