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This evening, U and I took a farewell walk in the Pincian Gardens to see the sunset; and found them crowded with people, promenading and listening to the music of the French baud. It was the feast of Whitsunday, which probably brought a greater throng than usual abroad.
Saying this, he held out his baud, and Katie held out hers. Harry pressed it warmly and tenderly. "Well," said Harry, after a pause, "I'll tell you all about it, for I want your your sympathy, you know, and your advice, you know, and all that sort of thing, you know." "Well, do you know, Mr. Rivers," said Katie, "that's my strong point.
'Ha'e we ta'en their trench? 'Ay; but no enough o' us to baud it. We're back in the auld place. Better luck next time. No safe to strike a match here; could dae fine wi' a fag. There was a silence between them, broken at last by Macgregor. 'Hoo did ye find me, Wullie? What way are ye no back in the trench?
'Frae Kippletringan!!! in an exalted tone of wonder, which we can but faintly express by three points of admiration. 'Ow, man! ye should hae hadden eassel to Kippletringan; ye maun gae back as far as the whaap, and baud the whaap till ye come to Ballenloan, and then 'This will never do, good dame! my horse is almost quite knocked up; can you not give me a night's lodgings?
At the same time, John Bara and Alexander Valiere were committed to Newgate for corresponding with the enemy; and Claude Baud, secretary to the duke of Savoy's minister, was, at the request of his master, apprehended for traitorous practices against her majesty and her government.
And the leaders gave close heed to all his feelings and to the times and seasons proper to each. Here he was joyous, and at a signal all the baud broke into merry laughter. Here he was stern, and the multitude set its teeth. There he wept, and tears fell like rain from innumerable eyes. As time went on, repeated action made action easy. The springs of feeling were readily troubled.
But where a man has done an act o' injustice, a wrang to his neebour, he has no ch'ice, it seems to me, but confess it: that neebour is the one from whom first he has to ask and receive forgiveness; and that neebour alone can lift the burden o' 't aff o' him! Besides, the confession may be but fair, to baud the blame frae bein laid at the door o' some innocent man!
I'se warrant they'll tak ye in, whether ye be gentle or semple. 'Simple enough, to be wandering here at such a time of night, thought Mannering, who was ignorant of the meaning of the phrase; 'but how shall I get to the PLACE, as you call it? 'Ye maun baud wessel by the end o' the loan, and take tent o' the jaw-hole. 'O, if ye get to eassel and wessel again, I am undone!
"Quo baud dubie superat Romanus," says Livy. And so the first thing they did to prevent the mutinies and insurrections of nations of late conquest was to take from them their arms and horses, and therefore it is that we so often meet in Caesar: "Arma proferri, jumenta produci, obsides dari jubet." De Bello Gall., vii.
As crowds are distracting, and people bent on their own errands are often oblivious of their surroundings, it is quite possible for a seeming cut to have been an unconscious oversight. When an acquaintance seems not to see one, though close at baud, it is possible that something closer yet to his consciousness is absorbing all his thoughts.
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