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THE STORY OF LE FEVER.
or twelve years of age; — but the poor creature has taRed
almoib as little as his sather; he does nothing but mourn and
lament for him night and day: — He has not furred from
the bed-sde these two days.
My uncle Tc%y laid down his knife and fork, and thruR his
plate from before him, as the landlord gave him the account;
and Dw;, without being ordered, took away without laying
one word.
T/vw/ laid my uncle 7h%y, 1 have a project in my head, as
it is a bad night, of wrapping mylelf up warm in my roque-
iaure, and paying a vilit to this poor gentleman.— Your
honour's roquelaure, replied the corporal, has not once been
had on, lince the night besore your honour received your
wound, when we mounted guard in the trenches before the
gate os St. NMaAn,' — and, belides, it is so cold and rai-
ny a night, that what with the roquelaure, and what with
the weather, 'twill be enough to give your honour you;
death, and bring on your honour's torment in your groin,
i sear so; replied my uncle but I am not atreh in my
mind, Hw?, lince the account the landlord has given me.—-
I with I had not known so much of this ahair, — added my
uncle -—' or that I had known more of it:-- How
siall we manage it? Leave it, an't please your honour, to me,
quoth the corporal; I'll take my hat and Itick and go to the
house and reconnoitre, and a& accordingly; and 1 will bring
your honour a sull account in an hour. — Thou lhalt go,
Tivw, said my uncle Th^y, and here's a frilling for thee to
drink with his servant. — I frail get it all out of him, said
the corporal, frutting the door.
It was not till my uncle Tb^y had knocked the afres out os
his third pipe, that corporal TH/% returned srom the inn,
and gave him the following account:
I delpaired athrsl, laid the corporal, of being able to bring
back any intelligence to your honour, about the lieutenant
and his son; for when I asked where his lervant was, from
whom I made mylelf lure os knowing every thing which was
proper to be asked, — I was answered, that he had no ler-
vant with him;— that he had come to the inn with hired
horses, which, upon Unding himlelf unable to proceed, to
join, 1 luppole, the regiment he had dilmised the morning
after he came. —< Is I get better, my dear, said he, as he
gave his purse to his son to pay the man, — we can hire
horses from hence.But alas', thepoor gentleman will never
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or twelve years of age; — but the poor creature has taRed
almoib as little as his sather; he does nothing but mourn and
lament for him night and day: — He has not furred from
the bed-sde these two days.
My uncle Tc%y laid down his knife and fork, and thruR his
plate from before him, as the landlord gave him the account;
and Dw;, without being ordered, took away without laying
one word.
T/vw/ laid my uncle 7h%y, 1 have a project in my head, as
it is a bad night, of wrapping mylelf up warm in my roque-
iaure, and paying a vilit to this poor gentleman.— Your
honour's roquelaure, replied the corporal, has not once been
had on, lince the night besore your honour received your
wound, when we mounted guard in the trenches before the
gate os St. NMaAn,' — and, belides, it is so cold and rai-
ny a night, that what with the roquelaure, and what with
the weather, 'twill be enough to give your honour you;
death, and bring on your honour's torment in your groin,
i sear so; replied my uncle but I am not atreh in my
mind, Hw?, lince the account the landlord has given me.—-
I with I had not known so much of this ahair, — added my
uncle -—' or that I had known more of it:-- How
siall we manage it? Leave it, an't please your honour, to me,
quoth the corporal; I'll take my hat and Itick and go to the
house and reconnoitre, and a& accordingly; and 1 will bring
your honour a sull account in an hour. — Thou lhalt go,
Tivw, said my uncle Th^y, and here's a frilling for thee to
drink with his servant. — I frail get it all out of him, said
the corporal, frutting the door.
It was not till my uncle Tb^y had knocked the afres out os
his third pipe, that corporal TH/% returned srom the inn,
and gave him the following account:
I delpaired athrsl, laid the corporal, of being able to bring
back any intelligence to your honour, about the lieutenant
and his son; for when I asked where his lervant was, from
whom I made mylelf lure os knowing every thing which was
proper to be asked, — I was answered, that he had no ler-
vant with him;— that he had come to the inn with hired
horses, which, upon Unding himlelf unable to proceed, to
join, 1 luppole, the regiment he had dilmised the morning
after he came. —< Is I get better, my dear, said he, as he
gave his purse to his son to pay the man, — we can hire
horses from hence.But alas', thepoor gentleman will never
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