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Chapter 49
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In the King’s name,
Let fall your swords and daggers1!
CRITIC.
When the father and son entered the cabinet of audience, it was easily visible that Sir Geoffrey had obeyed the summons as he would have done the trumpet’s call to horse; and his dishevelled grey locks and half-arranged dress, though they showed zeal2 and haste, such as he would have used when Charles I. called him to attend a council of war, seemed rather indecorous in a pacific drawing-room. He paused at the door of the cabinet, but when the King called on him to advance, came hastily forward, with every feeling of his earlier and later life afloat, and contending in his memory, threw himself on his knees before the King, seized his hand, and, without even an effort to speak, wept aloud. Charles, who generally felt deeply so long as an impressive object was before his eyes, indulged for a moment the old man’s rapture3. —“My good Sir Geoffrey,” he said, “you have had some hard measure; we owe you amends4, and will find time to pay our debt.”
“No suffering — no debt,” said the old man; “I cared not what the rogues6 said of me — I knew they could never get twelve honest fellows to believe a word of their most damnable lies. I did long to beat them when they called me traitor7 to your Majesty8 — that I confess — But to have such an early opportunity of paying my duty to your Majesty, overpays it all. The villains10 would have persuaded me I ought not to come to Court — aha!”
The Duke of Ormond perceived that the King coloured much; for in truth it was from the Court that the private intimation had been given to Sir Geoffrey to go down to the country, without appearing at Whitehall; and he, moreover, suspected that the jolly old
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匕首,短剑( dagger的名词复数 ) | |
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