[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link book
Westward Ho!

CHAPTER XIV
24/37

I haven't brewed a gallon of it this fortnight, if you'll believe me; ale, sir, and aqua vitae, and such low-bred trade, is all I draw now-a-days.

Try a pint of sherry, sir, now, to give you an appetite.

You mind my sherry of old?
Jane! Sherry and sugar, quick, while I pull off the captain's boots." Amyas sat weary and sad, while the innkeeper chattered on.
"Ah, sir! two or three like you would set the young ladies all alive again.

By-the-by, there's been strange doings among them since you were here last.

You mind Mistress Salterne!" "For God's sake, don't let us have that story, man! I heard enough of it at Plymouth!" said Amyas, in so disturbed a tone that mine host looked up, and said to himself-- "Ah, poor young gentleman, he's one of the hard-hit ones." "How is the old man ?" asked Amyas, after a pause.
"Bears it well enough, sir; but a changed man.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books