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? 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. |