United States or Jordan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"An almanac! an almanac!" said Oldbuck, starting up in great alarm "not that bauble!" flinging away a little pocket almanac which his niece offered him. "Great God! my poor dear Miss Isabella! Fetch me instantly the Fairport Almanac." It was brought, consulted, and added greatly to his agitation.
He offered me, with a tremulous hand, the bauble, which I accepted; and, as I took it, I saw a weight of sorrow tumble from his unhappy breast. This was my father, sir. A man who would have been the best of fathers had he been permitted, as his heart directed him, to be the tenderest of husbands. I could see in my boyhood that blame attached to my mother to what extent I did not know.
"I understand you," he said, coldly. "It is true that the Neapolitan was ready to rescue thee, when the calamity befell thy uncle of Florence, but Don Camillo Monforte is not a common diver of the Lido, to be rewarded like him who finds a bauble dropped from a gondola. Thou hast thanked the cavalier; I trust that a noble maiden can do no more in a case like this."
Now, Luck Doublets of sixes nineteen. Sir Cau. Sir Feeb. Now if he wins it, I'll swear he has a Fly indeed 'tis impossible without Doublets of sixes Sir Cau. L. Ful. How now? what's the matter you look so like an Ass, what have you lost? Sir Cau. A Bauble a Bauble 'tis not for what I've lost but because I have not won Sir Feeb. You look very simple, Sir what think you of Cato now? Sir Cau.
Now, sir, I value this bauble of a coronet as little as you can, or any philosopher on earth; for I hold that the chief of such a clan as the Sliochd nan Ivor is superior in rank to any earl in Scotland. But I had a particular reason for assuming this cursed title at this time.
The bodies of the slain, by scores, even by hundreds, were dragged ruthlessly from the arena and hurled into a ditch as contemptuously as if pity were yet unborn and human life the merest bauble. Yet the same eyes that witnessed these scenes with ecstatic approval would have been averted in pious horror had an anatomist dared to approach one of the mutilated bodies with the scalpel of science.
And do you say that you two women have carried these priceless things tacked in your cloaks, which, as I have seen, you throw down here and there and leave behind you? Oh, fools, fools, even among women incomparable fools! Fellow-travellers with Dr. Legh also, who would rob a baby of its bauble."
'Them accoosations of Dave about me honin' for said bauble is oncalled for. I'd no more pack a opal than I'd cut for deal an' embark on a game of seven-up with a ghost. As I states, the luck of opals is black. "'I was wont to think so, says Enright, 'but thar once chances a play, the same comin' off onder my personal notice, that shakes my convictions on that p'int.
"In riding over the hills this morning, I have lost a golden clasp, with three diamonds, that fastened my gorget, and I would ask you, should you meet with such a bauble in your ramblings, to carry it to the Lady Margaret of Threlkeld, who will see that it is restored to me." "Lady I will not fail to do your bidding. Few persons traverse those hills, and I doubt not the jewel may be recovered."
Dear grandmother smiled; but now she understood that it was really intended the chain was to be an offering to my wife, she no longer wished to change its destination. She examined the bauble a few moments, and said to me "Do you wish this, as well as your un father, I should say? It is a rich present for a poor man to make."
Word Of The Day