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'A lieutenant in the navy can hardly be the capital officer that our Harry is without some knowledge of men and discipline. 'I grant you, on his own element; but on shore he goes about in his holiday spectacles, and sees a bird of paradise in every cock-sparrow.
Little Jenny Thurston, watching these two through an upstairs shutter, marveled what adults found to say to each other in these interminable colloquies. A young cock-sparrow, piqued by their stillness, alighted on the fence near by and studied them, eye cocked inquisitively. "Of course, I'm not asking anything," said Varney. "About this, I mean. I am answered, and over-answered, already.
Now Count Diethelm was aroused, and with the blind fury of his earlier years swore to his rich companion that Gerda belonged to him, and should never wed the young cock-sparrow of the Sternburg. In her quiet chamber the unhappy maid wept out her heart's grief, but burning tears did not thaw the ice-cold heart of the father.
The girl said, 'And don't you go hopping into debt, my young cock-sparrow, or you'll know one side o' the turnkey better than t' other. She had a friend with her who chid her for speaking so freely. 'Is it too late to go in to-night? I asked. She answered that it was, and that she and her friend were the persons to show me the way in there.
It was maddening to find himself thus physically subjugated by one whom he so utterly despised. "Keep a civil tongue in your head, cock-sparrow," growled the giant, "lest I wring your neck. You're a nice one to talk of lying; you, with your tales of son and heirship to the Squire, and your offers of copper-mines for the asking! Who told me how I had been fooled? Why, Carew himself!
Why is it difficult to flirt on board the P. and O. steamers? What letter made Queen Bess mind her P's and Q's? Why is it an insult to a cock-sparrow to mistake him for a pheasant? Because it is making game of him. What is that from which the whole may be taken, and yet some will remain? The word wholesome. Why is blind-man's buff like sympathy? Because it is a fellow feeling for another.
Yes, he said, that must be in her; she must have womanly cleverness. "And yet I should like her to blush if only a cock-sparrow were to look at her hard," he said, "which brings me back to the girl again: and so I flit backwards and forwards. I must have what comes, I suppose," he said, "and whatever she may be, thank God she's no worse.
"Mr Malcolm," cried the captain, in great wrath, "how came you to cut off my dog's tail?" Before I went to sea I had always considered a London cock-sparrow to be the truest emblem of consummate impudence; but I have since discovered that he is quite modest compared to a midshipman. "Me, sir?" replied the youngster, demurely. "I didn't cut off his tail, sir; he cut it off himself!"
Sang Marian: "Blackbird and thrush, in every bush, Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow, You pretty elves, amongst yourselves, Sing my fair love good-morrow. To give my love good-morrow, Sing birds, in every furrow." Left to his own resources, the Duke of Ormskirk sat down beside the table and fell to making irrelevant marks upon a bit of paper. He hummed the air of Marian's song.
Elizabeth put out her lip in expectation that something unpleasant was intended, and other voices were not slow to ask an explanation. "Shooting the cocky-olly birds!" A general explosion of laughter. "Don't, Hal," said such a deplorable offended voice, that Sam, who had really held his tongue at first, could not help chiming in, "No, no; a cock-sparrow, for her London manners."
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