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You are willing to retreat?" "Ay!" was the ready response of every rioter there. "You swear to desist now and forever from your infamous attack upon this palace? You swear never more to make use of vituperative epithets toward the family of the deceased Count de Soissons?" "We swear, we swear! Open the gates! Let us out! Let us out!" was now the universal cry. "Not so fast.

'I can't guess, said Bella, turning her pale face from one to another. 'I could, cried Mrs Boffin, 'and what's more, I did! I found him out, all in a flash as I may say, one night. Didn't I, Noddy? 'Ay! That the old lady did! said Mr Boffin, with stout pride in the circumstance.

Mrs Snow was well by that time, as well as she ever expected to be in this world, and she bade them farewell with a good hope that she might see them again. "But, whether or not," said she, cheerfully, "I shall ay be glad and thankful for the quiet time we have had together.

He cast his eye upwards, with a shake of the head, at the vacant spot in the heavens which had so lately been filled by the branches of those trees that now lay stripped of their verdure, worthless and deserted logs, at his feet. "Ay," he muttered to himself, "I might have know'd it I might have know'd it!

I was of a little service to a very charming young woman, and she and her father were civil to me, as a matter of course. Herman Mordaunt is a name we all know, and, as you say, his is a family that any man may be proud of visiting, ay, and pleased too."

We stood up to go to the sick-room; but as we took our way through the dimly-lighted corridor I could not help thinking, again and again, and again ay, and for many a day after how strange it was that she had interrupted me on two such occasions when touching on such a theme. There was certainly some strange web of accidents, in whose meshes we were all involved. The Traveller's Loss

Ay, let' me but meet this same Robin Hood, and let me see whether he will not mind the King's warrant." So, after having paid their score, the messenger, with the Tinker striding beside his nag, started back to Nottingham again.

"I think it's a bit of both," said Jenny. "It's grand to be at the Hall, and ride in the coach, and sit in the pew at church, and that; but I used to get dreadful tired by times, it seemed so dull. There's a deal more fun here, and I'm freer like. But " Jenny left her "but" unfinished. "Ay, there's a many buts, I shouldn't wonder," said Kate, laughing.

"Ay, told me so this blessed marnin'; and who be he? wanted I to own 'twas a lie, and take the blessed sacrament, and make a good end. 'Sir, says I, 'Mr. Martimer believed it, that's Mr. Melcombe now and so 'e did, sir." "No, I didn't," said Valentine. "No?" she exclaimed, in a high piping tone. "No, I say. I thought you had either invented it made it up, I mean or else dreamed it.

And before I could breathe twice, it seemed, we were rolling over the stones Northward. "Sure it's a dream!" said I. "To think of it! Fanny in London!" "My father would have it so," said she, demurely. "Ay," added Phil, "and she's forbidden to go back to New York till she takes you with her. 'Faith, man, am I not a prophet?" "You're more than a prophet; you're a providence," I cried.