[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookWestward Ho! CHAPTER XIV 29/37
A capon and a brace of partridges.
I had no time to feast you as you deserve." And so he ran on all supper-time, hardly allowing Amyas to get a word in edge-ways; but heaping him with coarse flattery, and urging him to drink, till after the cloth was drawn, and the two left alone, he grew so outrageous that Amyas was forced to take him to task good-humoredly. "Now, my dear sir, you have feasted me royally, and better far than I deserve, but why will you go about to make me drunk twice over, first with vainglory and then with wine ?" Salterne looked at him a while fixedly, and then, sticking out his chin--"Because, Captain Leigh, I am a man who has all his life tried the crooked road first, and found the straight one the safer after all." "Eh, sir? That is a strange speech for one who bears the character of the most upright man in Bideford." "Humph.
So I thought myself once, sir; and well I have proved it.
But I'll be plain with you, sir.
You've heard how--how I've fared since you saw me last ?" Amyas nodded his head. "I thought so.
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