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BARNABY RUDGE - A TALE OF THE RIOTS OF 'EIGHTY by Charles ...

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altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there wasno calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the samemind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch. He might haveexpatiated on this suggestive theme at much greater length, butthat it occurred to him to ask what connection existed between theproposed expedition and Barna<strong>by</strong>'s being posted at the stable-dooras sentry; to which Hugh cautiously replied in these words:'Why, the people we mean to visit, were friends of his, once upon atime, and I know that much of him to feel pretty sure that if hethought we were going to do them any harm, he'd be no friend to ourside, but would lend a ready hand to the other. So I've persuadedhim (for I know him of old) that Lord George has picked him out toguard this place to-morrow while we're away, and that it's a greathonour--and so he's on duty now, and as proud of it as if he was ageneral. Ha ha! What do you say to me for a careful man as wellas a devil of a one?'Mr Dennis exhausted himself in compliments, and then added,'But about the expedition itself--''About that,' said Hugh, 'you shall hear all particulars from meand the great captain conjointly and both together--for see, he'swaking up. Rouse yourself, lion-heart. Ha ha! Put a good faceupon it, and drink again. Another hair of the dog that bit you,captain! Call for drink! There's enough of gold and silver cupsand candlesticks buried underneath my bed,' he added, rolling backthe straw, and pointing to where the ground was newly turned, 'topay for it, if it was a score of casks full. Drink, captain!'Mr Tappertit received these jovial promptings with a very badgrace, being much the worse, both in mind and body, for his twonights of debauch, and but indifferently able to stand upon hislegs. With Hugh's assistance, however, he contrived to stagger tothe pump; and having refreshed himself with an abundant draught of

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