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Tartarus Research
Tartarus Research
Tartarus Research
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They are not in buff. This may mean they are not in military
leathers, or may mean they are not naked. If the former,
their hidden armour is the metal they wear under their
clothes. If the latter, their physical charms. Both need to be
hidden from the farmer, who might be frightened by one,
embarrassed by the other. Number one (Lady Schaub)
comes, like the word cap-a-pee (cap-à-pied), from France.
She is head to foot in armour, like Hamlet’s father’s ghost.
Number two (Harriet Speed) is somewhat less ferocious of
aspect. Even so her good nature is used as the metal heads
of her arrows, or perhaps the poison with which the tips of
the arrows are smeared. Issuing like St George to kill the
dragon, we find a poet more like Robin Goodfellow than a
monster ravaging the countryside.
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