In the Blue Pike
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ISBN10: 1717256899
ISBN13: 9781717256898
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 11 2018
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781717256898
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 11 2018
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
May a thunderbolt strike you! The imprecation suited the rough fellow who uttered it. He had pointed out of doors as he spoke, and scarcely lowered the strange tones of his voice, yet of all the rabble who surrounded him only two persons understood his meaning-a fading, sickly girl, and the red-haired woman, only a few years her senior, who led the swearing man by a chain, like a tame bear. The Nuremberg magistrates had had Cyriax's tongue cropped for gross blasphemy, and listeners could scarcely comprehend the words he mangled in his gasping speech. The red-haired woman dropped the knife with which she was slicing bread and onions into a pot, and looked at her companion with an anxious, questioning glance. Nuremberg Honourables, he stammered as fast as he could, snatched his wife's shawl from her shoulders, and drew it over his unkempt head. The woman beckoned to their travelling companions-a lame fellow of middle age who, propped on crutches, leaned against the wall, an older pock-marked man with a bloated face, and the sickly girl-calling to them in the harsh, metallic voice peculiar to hawkers and elderly singers at fairs.
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