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When he salutes a man he lays violent hands upon him, and grips and shakes him like a fit of an ague; and when he accosts a lady he stamps with his foot, like a French fencer, and makes a lunge at her, in which he always misses his aim, too high or too low, and hits her on the nose or chin.
The governor regards him attentively, and, recognizing a playmate of his youth, accosts him with a gracious smile, inquires as to the prosperity of their birthplace, and the life or death of their ancient neighbors, and makes appropriate remarks on the different stations allotted by fortune to two individuals born and bred beside the same wild river.
Her tittle-tattle accosts another subject. I feel the enormous difference there was between what she asked me and what I answered. The streets are clad in the mourning of closed shops. It is still the same empty and hermetically sealed face of the day of holiday. My eyes notice, near the sunken post, the old jam-pot, which has not moved. I climb on to Chestnut Hill.
At Kassa, for instance, clandestine lovers caught together are beheaded. At Bártfa they are much more cruel. There, if a lass accosts a lad in the streets after vespers, or if a lad is caught talking with a lassie in a gateway, the watchman lays hands on the pair and claps them into jail.
If anybody accosts us, leave the answering to me. Cover your face as well as you can, and come along." He grasped Roger's hand, and together they set off through the darkness. The rope they were obliged to leave as it was, having no means of removing it.
And now, farewell; and, if possible, leave London before nightfall the sooner the better. Where is your servant?" "He has returned to Mr Heatherstone this morning." "You have done right. Lose no time in leaving London; and don't be in a hurry in your future plans. You understand me. If any one accosts you on the road put no trust in any professions.
A wandering musician, you see, can go anywhere, and nobody is surprised; he goes about the streets, or he travels along the high-road; he enters into yards, and slips into houses; he asks alms: and in so doing, he accosts everybody, speaks to them, follows them.
It was King James. Madame L'Hospital accosts him, says he is expected, and lost if he does not take care; but that he may trust in her and follow her. At once they both go to her friends. There he learns all that has happened, and they hide him, and the three men of his suite as well as they could.
And now, farewell; and, if possible, leave London before nightfall the sooner the better. Where is your servant?" "He has returned to Master Heatherstone this morning." "You have done right. Lose no time to leave London; and don't be in a hurry in your future plans. You understand me. If any one accosts you on the road, put no trust in any professions.
Hodge, who was comforting himself with a last bumper of punch before seeking bed. "Well, Youth," he accosts me, "have you thought better of your surly, huffing manner of this morning and this afternoon?" I told him that I had, and that I desired nothing better than to enter forthwith into the service of Bartholomew Pinchin, Esquire, of Hampstead.
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