The Ship of Glass; Or, the Mysterious Island [Followed By] Atcherley

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE DISPUTE. Now, close your ears to ] pleadings. Stir not hence, Till you have trounced him soundly. Such a braggart Moon never saw, much less the searching sun, Which 'twist the bright east and the cold grey west, Pours thousand beams far sifting. Tie him up 1 And strangle pity, that ahes hall not stretch Her piteous hands to save him. Old Play. Fang.?A rescue ! A rescue ! Hottest Quickly.?Good people, bring a rescue or two. Second Part of King Henry the Fourth. Act Il Scene I. Perhaps the most conspicuous figure in this company of boozers, was a young man of considerable height, but with legs of a longitude greater in proportion than his elevatiou warranted. He was of a high and determined bearing, with bright dark eyes, a long face, long nose, well-abaped chin, and an olive complexion. His movements were hasty and vehement, and betrayed emotions of no very peaceable or probably easily mollified character. His right arm was extended, in a sort of accusative impetuosity, towards a small thin man, dressed in three or four colours, whose face was red with mingled shame, anger, and ruffled pride, whilst he seemed to shrink away like the sensitive plant every time the fist of his opponent was even shaken. Around the two, many of those present had gathered and the rest looked on over the backs of the chairs, or over the shoulders of such of their companions as were nearest the disputants, or up in a dull sort of vague half-fuddled curiosity from the table, from which they seemedindisposed to stir to satisfy beyond this the fresh interest which had arisen in their mind?. Don't make so much noise, Pietro, said one of the pacific order, of which there were few enough present, Pimpernella can hear yon. Hear me! of cou...