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My business in Queensborough was to learn how best I might reach Mr. Rutherford's rendezvous." For a moment he sat, pipe in air, staring at me as if to make sure that he had heard aright. Then he clipt my hand and wrung it, babbling out some boyish brava that I made haste to put an end to. "Softly, my lad," I said; "'tis no great thing the Congress will gain by my adhesion.
Clipt yew alleys shall wander away into mysterious glooms: and out of their black arches shall come tripping children, like white fairies, to laugh and talk with the girl who lies dreaming and reading in the hammock there, beneath the black velvet canopy of the great cedar- tree, like some fair Tropic flower hanging from its boughs.
In camp he gave Rajah much freedom, its wings being clipt; and nothing pleased the little rebel so much as to claw his way up to his master's shoulder, sit there and watch the progress of the razor, with intermittent "jawing" at his own reflection in the cracked hand-mirror.
Don Ippolito had celebrated the villa at Stra in this strain ever since they had spoken of going up the Brenta: now it was the magnificent conservatories and orangeries that he sang, now the vast garden with its statued walks between rows of clipt cedars and firs, now the stables with their stalls for numberless horses, now the palace itself with its frescoed halls and treasures of art and vertu.
"Sought me this heart's dear love at gloom of night; * I rose in honour till he sat forthright, And said, 'O aim of mine, O sole desire * In such night-visit hast of guards no fright? Replied he, 'Yes, I feared much, but Love * Robbed me of all my wits and reft my sprite. We clipt with kisses and awhile clung we, * For here 'twas safe; nor feared we watchman-wight: Then rose we parting without doubtful deed * And shook out skirts where none a stain could sight."
Then I saw there was no great wound anywhere upon me; but only an utter bruising; and I found upon my right leg that there was a sharp and hairy claw clipt about it; but the armour had saved me from harm of the horrid thing; so that I did but kick it free with my left foot, and thence into the fire-hole.
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