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"And you had a good bed?" "Yes." "Then you'd better have stayed. You don't get either of them here. Where'd you sleep last night?" "Up an alley in an old wagon." "You had a better bed than that in the country, didn't you?" "Yes, it was as soft as as cotton." Johnny had once slept on a bale of cotton, the recollection supplying him with a comparison. "Why didn't you stay?"
They were buried in dust in the dark room in the clock-tower. Here is such a characteristic one. It has a long powdered wig George the First or Second, I don't know which and such a combination of colours, and such a face. It seems starting out of the canvas, and all but speaks. Do look; that is, I mean, Bale, if you can spare time."
"He'll go out by the packet of the 1st April," said my father, speaking of me as though I were a bale of goods. "Ah! that will be so nice," said Maria, settling her dress in the carriage; "the oranges will be ripe for him then!" On the 17th April I did sail, and felt still very like a bale of goods.
As the whole party had now, by the goodness of God, reached the land in safety, they turned their undivided energies towards the bales and boxes which were rolling about in the surf. Many of these had been already collected, and were carried to the spot where Mrs Stanley and Edith lay under the shelter of a bale.
There was military music, the firing of salutes, the murmur of a multitude of voices, and the tramp of horses and of men. Toussaint courteously invited the commissaries to witness the presentation to him, for the interests of France, of the keys of the cities of the island, late in the possession of Spain, and now ceded to France by the treaty of Bale.
One of the firelock-men broke into hasty speech, glancing, the Colonel noticed, at him and Bale, as if they were the subjects of his words. O'Sullivan Og answered the man curtly and harshly; but before the reply was off his lips a second man broke in vehemently in support of the other. They all halted; for a few seconds all spoke at once.
Close by, a carter stood at the head of an impatient horse that stamped and rattled its harness, and a hoist clanked as a bale of goods went up to a top story; but except for this the street was quiet Farther off, one or two moving figures showed indistinctly, for rain was falling and the light getting dim.
There was every prospect of a general decamp of all my people. However, I told them not to be discouraged; that I would get food for them in the morning. The bale of choice cloths was opened again next morning, and four royal cloths were this time selected, and two dotis of Merikani, and Bombay was again despatched, burdened with compliments, and polite words.
If they were pleased it would be a great triumph and the concerts would be very successful. From Strasburg they went to Manheim, then up the Rhine to Bale in Switzerland. Then back again to Baden Baden, and to Heidelberg. What a glorious time she had. There were rides and walks among the beautiful hills just as the grapes were ripe.
He wandered about alone, and looked at everything, with his hands in his little pockets, and a white night-cap on, the darling! He was not so beautiful as many other wild flowers I saw afterwards, but so dear and loving in his looks and little confident ways. "When bale is att hyest, boote is nyest." Ballad of Sir Aldingar. By this time, my hostess was quite anxious that I should be gone.
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