Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye’ll taste this steel throughout your vitals.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 10 “The Siege of the Round-House” [Alan]
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This chapter was originally published in Young Folks Paper, Vol. 28, No. 808 (1886-05-22).