The High Toby

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H. B. Marriott Watson. The High Toby

The High Toby

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THE HIGH TOBY

THE DRAPER'S NIECE

MISS AND MY LADY

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE

THE ATTACK ON THE CHAISE

THE GENTLEMANLY. HABERDASHER

THE MAN IN BLACK

THE LADY IN THE COACH

THE TURTLE-DOVES

MY LADY'S RING

GALLOWS GATE

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H. B. Marriott Watson

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Now I will confess that this predicament had not occurred to me, for to say the truth, I had a thought that he would fall on me with his weapon, which I minded not, being as good a swordsman as ever any chamber knight in town. And on that astonishment followed also these sequels in my mind—that if so be he carried out the plan he had, I should not only go to the jug, but he would have the wife that was maid. This put me in a frenzy, yet I dared not attack him with Nick outside, and I knew not what other also. So, very quickly making my resolution, I broke out a-laughing, and said I,—

"You have me held, your worship, by Heaven you have. Yet I was but jesting. Am I a fool to peril a hundred guineas for a chitty face? Come, here are your ten guineas. Pay me down my price, and there stands your madam for you."

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