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I look to you to see even before you have killed Pevensey that Honoria goes into Italy. For she admires and loves you, almost as much as I do, Horace, and she will readily be guided by you " He cried my lord of Ufford's given name some two or three times, for young Calverley had turned, and he had seen Ufford's face. The earl moistened his lips. "You are a fool," he said, with a thin voice.
Bertrand du Guesclin prayeth you to let him parley with all in company. By my faith, gentle herald, said Hugh de Calverley, who was master of the English, 'I will readily see Bertrand here, and will give him good wine; I can well give it him, in sooth, I do assure you, for it costs me nothing. Then the herald departed, and returned to his lord, and told the news of this company.
As it was, "J. K. S." left next to nothing but two tiny collections of verse, showing an inspiration midway between Calverley and Praed, but with quite sufficient personal note. Except Miss Rossetti, no woman during this time approached the poetical excellence of Mrs. Barrett Browning.
He listened with quite extraordinary interest as I was telling this story, and when I had finished he looked very queerly at my cousin. "'A deuced odd thing, this, Calverley, said he. 'Of course, it may be only a coincidence, but it really does look as if there was something, after all, in that "'Shut up, Raggerton, said my cousin. 'We don't want any of that rot. "'What is he talking about?"
Accordingly a little girl recited 'Casabianca', and another little girl 'We are Seven', and various children were induced to repeat hymns, 'some rather long', as Calverley says, but all very mild and innocuously evangelical. I was then asked by Mrs.
I pray you to accept it, not as part of the ransom for my knights' armour, but as a proof of my esteem for one who has shown himself a flower of knightly courtesy." "It would be churlish, Sir Hugh Calverley, for me to refuse so noble a gift thus courteously tendered.
Calverley sketched a whistle, and showed no other trace of astonishment. "I see. The fool confided in the spendthrift. My dear, I understand. In nature Pevensey gave the gems to some nymph of Sadler's Wells or Covent Garden. For I was out of England. And so he capped his knavery with insolence. It is an additional reason why Pevensey should not live to scratch a gray head.
Erwyn's snuff-box, which Calverley had been admiring. He followed the earl into a side-room opening upon the Venetian Chamber wherein the fete was. Ufford closed the door. You saw that he had put away the exterior of mirth that hospitality demanded of him, and perturbation showed in the lean countenance which was by ordinary so proud and so amiably peevish.
Foker's pursuits and pleasures lay on the table by his side when he woke. Ah! how faint all these pleasures seemed now. What did he care for Conkey Sam or the Worcestershire Nobber? What for the French prints ogling him from all sides of the room; those regular stunning slap-up out-and-outers? And Calverley spelling bad, and calling him Hokey-fokey, confound her impudence!
And it is tolerably notorious that Pevensey is in Lord Bute's pay, and that our Scottish Mortimer, to do him justice, does not permit his spies to be injured." Now Mr. Calverley took snuff. The music without was now more audible, and it had shifted to a merrier tune. "I think I comprehend. Pevensey and I whatever were our motives have committed a robbery. Pevensey, as the law runs, is safe.
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