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She readily obtained a promise from her relative that he would be particular in his attention to her son and therefore concluded she had accommodated matters between her son's wishes and his safety in a way sufficiently attentive to both. She set off to Edinburgh to get what was awanting for his outfit, and shortly afterwards received melancholy news from the Highlands.
One sent forth the praises of Athelstane in a doleful panegyric; another, in a Saxon genealogical poem, rehearsed the uncouth and harsh names of his noble ancestry. Jesters and jugglers were not awanting, nor was the occasion of the assembly supposed to render the exercise of their profession indecorous or improper.
But signs are not awanting that the breath of the older heroism is beginning to stir men's breasts, and that the passion for justice and for liberty, which thrilled through the veins of the world's greatest in the past, and woke our pulses to responsive throb, has not yet died wholly out of the hearts of men.
There was something, I know not what, awanting to the cheerfulness of the party. And "Silence like a heavy cloud, O'er all the warriors hung." If the general report of Croker's retiring be accurate, it may account for this. April 22. Sophia left this to take down poor Johnnie to Brighton. I fear I fear but we must hope the best. Anne went with her sister.
He was one of young Sir Simon's men-at-arms, you see, and took to the woods, like other folk, after Kenilworth was given up, till stout men were awanting for this Crusade. And he knew Sir Guy when he came to the camp yon by Tunis, and spake with him; moreover, he went in the train of him of Almayne to Viterbo, and had speech again with Sir Simon, who gave him this scroll.
Nor was another awanting in these saturnalia the form and face of her whose one word of sentence had been to him as a doom, and who fixed that doom in his soul by her red glance of reproof.
Nor were rousing passions, animating recollections, and charmed desires awanting to sustain the courage on both sides.
Of course there are variants of the story, with a stair and sleep and snow brought in as sensational, if improbable, accessories; but such stories as these all good men refuse to believe, unless they are compelled to do so by the conclusive evidence of direct authority; and that, in this case, is altogether awanting.
We admire its many beauties; we see the life of the poor made noble and dignified; we see, in the end, the soul emerging from the tyranny of time and circumstance; but with all that we feel that there is something awanting.
And two or three patients out of all those who came and were denied medicine made Doctor Margaret their washerwoman. "Now, Martin, you must help. I'll no more cats than can slay mice." "Mistress, the stomach is not awanting for't, but the headpiece, worst luck." "Oh! I mean not the starching and ironing; that takes a woman and a handy one. But the bare washing; a man can surely contrive that.
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