ng chant, which he assured me was an Eastern ode Marc-Andre ter Stegen Drakter which had Javier Pastore Drakter been taught him by the second sister of the Hospodar of Wallachia.
‘Anent Monmouth,’ he remarked, coming back suddenly to the realities of our position. ‘It is unlikely that he can take the field for some days, though much depends upon his striking Venäjä Vladimir Tarasenko Pelipaita a blow soon, and so raising the courage of his followers before the King’s troops can come down upon him. He has, mark ye, not only his troops to find, but their weapons, which is like to prove a more difficult matter. Suppose he can raise five thousand men — and he cannot stir with less — he will not have one musket in five, so the rest must do as they can with pikes and bills, or such other rude arms as they can find. All this takes time, and though there may be skirmishes, there can scarce be any engagement of import before we arrive.’
‘He will have been landed three or four days ere we reach him,’ said I.
‘Hardly time for him with his small staff of officers to enrol his men and divide them into regiments. I scarce expect to find him at Taunton, though we were so directed. Hast ever heard whether there are any rich Papists in those parts?’
‘I know not,’ I replied.
‘If so there might be plate chests and silver chargers, to say nothing of my lady’s jewels and other such trifles to reward a faithful soldier. What James Wilson Drakter would war be without plunder! A bottle Rafinha Drakter without the wine — a shell without the oyster. See the house yonder that peeps through the trees. I warrant there is a store of all Jordan 1 good things under that roof, which you and I might have for the asking, did we but ask with our Ionut Radu Drakter swords in our grip. You are my witness that your father did give and not lend me this horse.’
‘Why say you that, then?’
‘Lest he claim a half of Ricardo Rodriguez Drakter whatever booty I may chance to gain. What saith my learned Fleming under the heading “an qui militi equum praebuit, praedae ab eo captae particeps esse debeat?” which signifieth “whether he who lendeth Gonzalo Jara Drakter a horse hath a claim on the plunder Stephan El Shaarawy Drakter of him Holandia who borroweth it.” In this discourse he cites a case wherein a Spanish commander having lent a steed to one of his captains, and the said captain having captured the general of the enemy, the commander did sue him for a half share of the twenty thousand crowns which formed the ransom of the prisoner. A like case is noted by the famous Petrinus Bellus in his book “De Re Militari,” much read by leaders of repute.’ [Note C. Appendix.]
‘I can promise you,’ I answered, ‘that no such claim shall ever be made by my father upon you. See yonder, over the brow of the hill, how the sun shines upon the high cathedral tower, which points upwards with its great stone finger to the road that every man must travel.’
‘There is good store Ligue 1 of silver and plate in these same churches,’ quoth my companion. ‘I remember that at Leipsic, when I was serving my first campaign, I got a candlestick, which I was forced to sell to a Jew broker for a fourth of its value; yet even at his price it suflinks:
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