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"Nay, sir, that they were not," returned Greensheve; "for if I have eyes in my head, every man-Jack of them weareth me a white badge in his bonnet, something chequered with dark." "White, chequered with dark," repeated Dick. "Faith, 'tis a badge I know not. It is none of this country's badges.
Hence the chequered career of the thimble-rigger. Had the municipality been seized by open force, there might have been complaint, it would not have aroused the same lasting grudge. This grudge was an ill gift to bring to Brandeis, who had trouble enough in front of him without.
Like a philosopher in deep study, he wipes and adjusts his spectacles, then takes her right hand and commences reading its lines. "Your history is an uncommon one " "Yes," interrupts the girl, "mine has been a chequered life." "You have seen sorrow enough, but will see more. You come of good parents; but, ah! there is a mystery shrouding your birth."
Ah, my sister lovely in person but lovelier far in heart and mind adorably innocent troubled and destined to infinitely deeper distress before the end brave and true and hopeful through all the chequered course of love! You had not known, dear heart, but then discovered, all in a heavenly flash, what sickness you suffered of. "Davy!" she whispered. "Ay, dear?" "I'm knowin' now what ails me."
Perchance God spoke to them in suggestive prophecy, for the contrast was typical of their future chequered career in these almost unknown wilds of South Africa. Left by their escort on the following day as their English brethren had been left in the Zuurveld of Lower Albany to take root and grow there or perish, the heads of families assembled, and their leader addressed them.
The daylight, threading its way between four red walls chequered with white lines, caught rosy tints and reflections which gave a mysterious grace and fantastic appearance to faces, and even to trifling details.
This woman who hardly concerned herself at all about her son, allowing him to grow up badly enough and committing all her maternal duties to the grandmother, was perpetually cheerful, notwithstanding that her life had been chequered by chance and her widowhood of sufficiently dramatic character, as was said. She endeavored to play the part of an adviser, an intimate friend to Adrienne.
His path through the world was marked by strong outlines, and instruction is to be derived from every feature of his mind, and every portion of his eventful and chequered life. In all the aspects of his character, he was probably the most singular man that has appeared in this country during the preceding century, and the leading incidents of whose life ought to stand fairly on record.
He was great in verse, great in prose, great in mysticism, great in intellectual force and moral courage. His works do not lend colour to this presentation of the man, nor do the ascertainable details of his chequered career. The conception of Luis de Leon as a meek spirit, an unresisting victim of malignant persecution, is not the sole view tenable of a complex character.
I had at first a rather chequered journey: got involved in gardens, butted into houses, and had even once the misfortune to awake a sleeping family, the father of which, as I suppose, menaced me from the window with a blunderbuss. Altogether, though I had been some time gone from my companions, I was still at no great distance, when a miserable accident put a period to the escape.
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