Of Nikolas Village, Part IIII

And so the Womone, in hayste, did aske the Nikolasus of hisse wounde, and he did responde in earnest, for he was a gentel-man, and he spoke in wayes of Christe, and he didde behoove a goode manne, and she was startled, and alarmmed, and alacke, and bemused, and petrifyed, and putrifyed, and she didde tayke bandages, and wrappinges, and iodines, and she wrapped the wrappinges around the heade of the Nikolaus, such that her bosomme came to his fayce, manie tymes, however, begin a gentel-man, the Nikoaus did not licke it vigourouslie, nor did he attempt to burie his heade into the furrowes, and it wasse goode.

And the Nikolas, bandaged, did come unto the womon and say hisse queste, that he did wante to retrieve his greatcoate, which he had lefte at her bodie, a few dayes agoe, and she did remember this incident, and with impunitie, did remember the Nikolause and his boorishe and bigoutous behavioure, and she did huff, and puff, and blow at himme, and he was profounded. Such that the womon, feeling it right to return the coate to the rightefulle ownere, regardless of the poor morale and the bade attitude of such ownere, did go into the coat-storinnge roome, and retrieve itte, and take it to himme. And he said to herre thank you verie muche and he took his hatte and putte on his coate and prepared to depart into the cold, whintry nighte.

But the womone, being a gentel-man, did not wante the Nikolause to go into the nighte in the blissard that has rescently beingged, and she did invite himme to staye in her houme, and to lie in her beddechambres, however, the nikoluse, being a gentel-man, adamantlie decklined this invitation, and he asked to be put bhy the coale-heathe to sleep, in the warmthe, and she, being a gentle-man, of coarse said to him you may make your selfe comfort able in there, and warme upp in the nighte.

So the night passed and it was colde and stormy and white and whintry and blissard and sexxye, and the womone arose from the bedhambres, while wearing her bed-shirtes, which was quite transparente, espeical through the goode light of the sunne that rised, and she walked, quite absente mindedlie, into the parlour, and the drawing roome, and the Nikoluas saw her, in splendid nackednesse, and though, being a gentel-man, did avert hisse eyes immediately, such that the womone was quite flushed, and she retreated to the bed-chambre to reste.

And the sunne came upp and the light flooded the crevasses of the old house and the old paintes and the wooden furnitures came to a sparkel, and the nikolous admired itte, but then he knewed that it was the righte time to depart, so he came into the bedde chambres to say fare well to the womone, but the womone, changing into her day-clothes, wasse nacked, and the Nikolas saw this, and, being a gentel-man, did avert hise eyes, and he ran oute, in a panick, and itte wasse goode.

Of Nikolas Village, Part III

And so, in the myddle of the nighte, the nikolas went to the house of the womon, under the veil of the nighte, which at the tyme was alreadie dissapearinge, and vanisshing into the sun rise, and the sun beams gmilerd alongst the pavementes, and collbbled streetes, and the boulevardes, and stumbling over a drunkarde, he did beg hisse pardone, however, the dunkard, in a wrathe, for being expelled frome the publick house, and without liquour, or spirites, or wyne, or beere, or meade, or grogge, or liqueur, or alchoholle, and the drunkarde, he did take out hisse blade, and hie didde give Nikoalsu two quiche swipes ackrose the cheeke, such that they made an 'X' shappe in the fleshe, and the bloode was waarme, and it dripped down into the street, and the drunkard, his mind beckoming cleareere with the sunne, and the lighte of daye, realisd the gravituie of his acktiones, and he fled, like a greate white beirde into the cobbled roades, and Nikolas, still wounded, and dased, from the attack, and shell-shocked from the experience, then notissed the bloode, and the paine in hiise fayce seared in his fleshe, and he applied his hand kerchieffe, and he continued on the waye to the womon house, his sensse of response abilitie nevere fayding,

And then he did come upon the house of the womon, and he did see the granidoise steppes, and the marbled tyles, and it was goode. And he ascended the steppes, and he did greete the buttleres and the scullery maides, and he did see a younge servante boy cleaninge the florres, and approaciong the Nikolas, he said hisse name was Kesler and it was very nyce to meete himme, and the laydie of the house was comming downe soon, and to waite in the parlour. And then Nikoolus turned around to the parlour, byt the Kessler did see his opportunute to crete a cruel pranke, and he did snappe the coulottes of the nikoulas vigourouslie, and it was goode. Mr. nikolous, having reckovered from the dreadfulle assaullte, by the drunkarde, and the boy bothe, now recklined in a lagre shaire in the roome, and smoked a cigarre, and had a glasse of whiskey, and applied some to hisse fayce, as a precautione, againste the wounde, and it was goode.

And a few minutes latere, the womon descende into the drawing roome, to greete the gueste, whereupon she had disckovered the Nikolasu, and in her impudence, she would have almost driven himme oute of the house, and indeed was aboutt to do just that thinge, whereupon she disckovered the redde stayned hand kerchief, and the distorted facial conditiones of the Nikolous, and wondeerd if he was all right.

Of Nikolas Village, Part II

And as M. Nikoolus made hissre preparrations for the departurre, in the haste of the nighte, when the windes were blowinge, and Zephyrus was in his wanton wayes, like a trolle in a foreste, and lanterens alighted the streettoppes, than in a poorerr quatrere of towne, on the other syde of the bridge that conneckted the northeern fieldes with the artisannes, then a young boy was crawilinge upon the streetes, and was wont for foode, for he was a poore, and he had no hoouse, or income, or any substicence, and he did scavenge in the dusteebinnes, and the wastebasckests, and the seweres, and the ratte-holes, and the cobblestonnes, and the alleywayes, and the oceanes, and the sykes, and it was goode. And he did looke up at the sky, and it being a colde night, and cleare, for the stares were vissible from the position of the schild, M. Kessler, he did looke uppe at them, and aske for guidanse, and it was given to him, and he reveiced the blessinges of the Winde, and he did go and decide to steale foodes from the wealthie citesenes, and itt was goode.

And so, undere the covere of black-ness, M. Kessler did go and approache the manour of the country baronne, in a most stealthie apprehensione, and the neervoues in his gutte did twiste and turne in a most foul waye, for he was feeling not only feare of being accosted and arraigned, but he was also expereienceing a profounde disquietude on his actiones, and a lack of celare direcktive, and he was troubled as the propoerre pathe. For he questioneed whethere the fate that the stares did dicktate to himme was indeed the righte pathe form him to tayke, whether to accept the judgementes of the outsideres, to crawle blinlie alongst the slumme-wayes, or to create a meaning unto himme-selfe, and to determine his owne destinie. However, a passinge beaste of the nighte startled himme as he was thynking thisse, and he dismissed the thoughtes.

And, like a panthere, in the swifteness, he ascended the steppes that leade to the backe-doore, and he entered like a visitataion from a nother realme, and he did become sylent as a beare, in the wintere time, for on the streetes he had learned to be such, and he did go to the larder, and the kitchene, and the celler, and the pantrie, and the casemente, and the vine-yarde, and he did steale unto himmeselfe a greate deal of foode, such that it would sustaine himme for a numbere of weekes, had it not been for his disckoverie, as he befell upon a rat-trap, and clambouring in haste, he did awaken the manservante, and he was accosted by the ladie of the house, who happened to be the womon that came to the Nikolaus in the horse-house, and it was goode.

Of Nikolas Village, Part I

There is a smalle countrie in the nourthe-easte, off the coaste of aegean sea, whereupon in this countrie, there is a village, by the lake, where there are fishes, and birdes, it is called nikolas village, and in the small towne, where there are many trades-men, and black-smithes, and horse-men, is it where the Nikolaus and the kessler did do many thinges.

One of the thynges that theye dide was on the nighte of st. mouumoeuthe, nikolas the apprentisse to a greate horse-man inhisse stabeles, and outside was a womon, and she was hotte, and coole, and warme, and colde, because it was wintere, and nikolaus, seeing him beeing a gentele man, did offere his great coate to herre, and she did take it upon her bodie, and she did thank himme, and it was goode. And the nikolaus asked her what she was doing outsie the sables, and she said unto him: because I wanted to become the greatest horse-man that ever rode a house, and shoote arrowes from a crosse-bowe on toppe of itte. And the nikolas, muche shoched, said unto her: but madam a womon such as yourselfe should not intereferre in the affaries of warre, and battele, and the man-domaines, and staye in the domeciles. And the womon upon hearinge thisse, did become much upsette, and embittered, and ragefulle, and spittefulle, and hattefulle, and disdainfulle, and soure, and dyspleased, and it was goode. And she left the premisses, because she was upsette with the attitiude of the nikolaus, whom she thought was a not nice personne, in mannere, and she retunned to her domicille. However, what mr nikoalsu did not know was that she wasse the doutter of a riche-man, who was an influentialle politicker in the village, and who owned muche lande, and knowed baronnes, and dukkes, and earlles, and counttes, and it wase gode.

And then the nikolasu came to his house, in a poorer quarter of the vilage, where his house was lighted by kerrosene lampes, and gassoline, and finishing his worke, he ate his simple supper, and he prayed, and he slept in the nightte. And in the morninge, after he had stimulated himselffe, and he could refleckt on his paste actions, he was much agreieved at his behaviour to the womon, and he did realise that his greate coate was missinge, and he did set about to simoltanesouely disckover the womon and identrite, and to retrieve his cote, and to perphaps to rememd affaires with the womon.