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"Then you will let me?" she asked. "Go ahead!" said the bard, and he reached for the whistle. The city, bustling and animated by day, like an energetic housewife, was at night a gay demoiselle, awakening to new life and excitement.
I ain't askin' your reasons for doin' some pretty queer things, Mr. Drew." "I'll stand every penalty of the law, sir. I only ask that you see that punishment falls where it is deserved only. The case is clear. Bard acted in self-defence." Glendin was desperate. He said at length: "When a man's tried in court they bring up his past career.
Twice and thrice he told them, but they could only repeat the same foolishness, until at last the king ordered one of his squires to give a blow to the chief bard, and the squire struck him a blow with a broom, so that he fell back on his seat.
She had seen him, it appeared, I know not where, soon after his arrival in the East, and was vastly amused at his little affectations. He had picked up a few sentences of the Romantic, with which he affected to give orders to his Greek servant. I can’t tell whether Lady Hester’s mimicry of the bard was at all close, but it was amusing; she attributed to him a curiously coxcombical lisp.
"Bard" was terse, short, brutally abrupt, alive with possibilities of action. Those possibilities he would never learn from the dead lips of his father. He sought them from his mother, but only the painted mouth and the painted smile answered him. He turned again to the picture of the house with the snow-topped mountains in the distance.
He pooh-poohed love as a necessity for marital felicity, and would enforce his argument by quoting from the bard: "All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one." "You can get at a man's income," he would say, "but not at his heart.
"This is another Brutum Fulinen launched at the Critical Review by one Churchill, who it seems is a clergyman, and it must be owned has a knack at versification; a bard, who upon the strength of having written a few good lines in a thing called The Rosciad, swaggers about as if he were game-keeper of Parnassus."
Her face was Heaven's bow in-showers; Her dark hair flowed around it, like the streaming clouds, Thou wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strinadona!" Wallace rose from his chair, which had been placed near her. She had deigned that these tender words of the bard of Morven should suggest to her hearer the observation of her own resembling beauties.
Them was the sort I learned to ride the range with." "I've heard something about a fight which you and John Bard had against the Piotto gang. Care to tell me anything of it?" Lawlor lolled easily back in his chair and balanced a second large drink between thumb and forefinger. "There ain't no harm in talk, son; sure I'll tell you about it. What d'you want to know?"
Chevalier Yelin, the friend and travelling companion of Baron D'Eichthal, was a native of Bavaria. His wife had told him playfully that he must not leave Scotland without having seen the great bard; and he prolonged his stay in Edinburgh until Scott's return, hoping to meet him at the Royal Society on this evening. On the morning of this day Sir Walter wrote the following note to his friend:
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