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"It's a great secret, my dear child; but he is coming a-courting!" Catherine was serious still. "Is that what he told you!" "He didn't say so exactly. But he left me to guess it. I'm a good guesser." "Do you mean a-courting me?" "Not me, certainly, miss; though I must say he is a hundred times more polite to a person who has no longer extreme youth to recommend her than most of the young men.
He seemed just rakish and gallant enough to fulfil the conditions of the song "The frog he would a-courting ride, With sword and pistol by his side." This lively young fellow, whom we shall call Cri-Cri, like other frisky and gay young people, carried the day quite over the head of the solemn old philosopher under the calla-leaves.
I am late already." "Where to, Dan? Where to? I always used to know, even if you was going courting. Go a-courting, Dan, as much as ever you like, only don't make no promises. But whatever you do, keep away from that bad, wicked, Free and Frisky Club, my dear." "Mother, that's the very place I am just bound to.
'Of course I don't say that there's many that would have you; there's girls enough but laws! they'd all make game of you if you were to go a-courting to them, and, I take it, courting's not the sort of thing you're cleverest at. 'True, said the schoolmaster again, and again he sighed.
Gordon, and, to show her indifference, Sarah Emily was calling forth loud and clear the chronicles of all those "finest young gents that ever were seen," who had come a-courting all in vain. The singer being reduced to a sulky silence, the mistress of the house passed out on a tour of inspection.
"No, my air-castles are very real ones! In a year from now they'll be reporting " "If the Pope to Gretchen comes a-courting!" "Keep quiet, you ridiculous goose! I tell you by the first of next September there will be no 'Imperial Court Composer' of the name of Wolf Mozart to be found in Vienna." "May the foxes bite you for that!"
"A house!" he murmured, at last; "I wish I had the building of that house!" The tone, the look he gave, alarmed me still further. "You would build it well!" I cried. It was his trade, the building of houses. "I would build it slowly," was his ominous answer. Juliet certainly likes me, and trusts me, I think, more than any other of the young men who used to go a-courting her.
A-courting, then, Petruchio went to Katharine the Shrew; and first of all he applied to Baptista, her father, for leave to woo his GENTLE DAUGHTER Katharine, as Petruchio called her, saying, archly, that, having heard of her bashful modesty and mild behavior, he had come from Verona to solicit her love.
Boston lovers came a-courting in the horse-cars, but hers had floated downstream to her just at dusk in a birch-bark canoe, or sometimes, in the moonlight, on a couple of logs rafted together. But it was all over now, and she could see only Stephen's stern face as he flung the despised turquoise ring down the river-bank. XIII. A Country Chevalier It was early in August when Mrs.
They've all got husbands now and grown families only there ain't one among 'em equal to our Miss Madeline, though there's some of 'em much richer. When my lady married him, the judge, you know, he was the poorest of the lot. They didn't think so much of him when he came a-courting in those days." "He was only a practising barrister then."
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