Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (free children's ebooks pdf .txt) π
"Quo, quo, scelesti, ruitis?"
He laughed and sighed in one; but the laugh dominated the sigh, for Mr. Blood was unsympathetic, as are most self-sufficient men; and he was very self-sufficient; adversity had taught him so to be. A more tender-hearted man, possessing his vision and his knowledge, might have found cause for tears in the contemplation of these ardent, simple, Nonconformist sheep going forth to the shambles - escorted to the rallying ground on Castle Field by wives and daughters, sweeth
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Miss Bishop was still with Peter Blood when Major Mallard entered. His announcement startled them back to realities.
βYou will be merciful with him. You will spare him all you can for my sake, Peter,β she pleaded.
βTo be sure I will,β said Blood. βBut Iβm afraid the circumstances wonβt.β
She effaced herself, escaping into the garden, and Major Mallard fetched the Colonel.
βHis excellency the Governor will see you now,β said he, and threw wide the door.
Colonel Bishop staggered in, and stood waiting.
At the table sat a man of whom nothing was visible but the top of a carefully curled black head. Then this head was raised, and a pair of blue eyes solemnly regarded the prisoner. Colonel Bishop made a noise in his throat, and, paralyzed by amazement, stared into the face of his excellency the Deputy-Governor of Jamaica, which was the face of the man he had been hunting in Tortuga to his present undoing.
The situation was best expressed to Lord Willoughby by van der Kuylen as the pair stepped aboard the Admiralβs flagship.
βId is fery boedigal!β he said, his blue eyes twinkling. βCabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!β
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