6/38 We can learn what we want without his help." The Indian paused, incredulous and astonished. "Overboard with you!" quoth Amyas. "Don't you know when you are well off ?" "Most illustrious senor," began the Indian, in the drawling sententious fashion of his race (when they take the trouble to talk at all), "I have been deceived. I heard that you heretics roasted and ate all true Catholics (as we Guayquerias are), and that all your padres had tails." "Plague on you, sirrah!" squeaked Jack Brimblecombe. |