treats

Sh he had rotted, for my part. "But no such luck for honest Peter Brock,
or Captain Wood, as he was in those days. One blessed Monday I went to
wait on Mr. Secretary, and he squeezed my hand and whispered to me that
I was to be Major of a regiment in Virginia--the very thing: for you
see, my dear, I didn't care about joining my Lord Duke in Flanders;
being pretty well known to the army there. The Secretary squeezed my
hand (it had a fifty-pound bill in it) and wished me joy, and called me
Major, and bowed me out of his closet into the ante-room; and, as gay as
may be, I went off to the 'Tilt-yard Coffee-house' in Whitehall, which
is much frequented by gentlemen of our profession, where I bragged not a
little of my good luck. "Amongst the company were several of my
acquaintance, and amongst them a gentleman I did not much care to see,
look you! I saw a uniform that I knew--red and yellow facings--Cutts's,
my dear; and the wearer of this was no other than his Excellency
Gustavus Adolphus Maximilian, whom we all know of! "He stared me full in
the face, right into my eye (t'other one was patched, you know), and
after standing stock-still with his mouth open, gave a step back, and
then a step forward, and then screeched out, 'It's Brock!' "'I beg your
pardon, sir,' says I; 'did you speak to me?' "'I'll SWEAR it's Brock,'
cries Gal, as soon as he hears my voice, and laid hold of my cuff (a
pretty bit of Mechlin as ever you saw, by the way). "'Sirrah!' says I,
drawing it back, and giving my Lo

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