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This "you" flattered Ulrich, for it allowed a ray of the royal favor to fall upon him also, so he soon informed his countryman, unasked, of every one of the monarch's visits to the treasury. Weeks and months elapsed.
No man so furtive for the time as the ingenuous countryman who finds that his ingenuousness has been abused. Melbury's heretofore confidential candor towards his gentlemanly son-in-law was displaced by a feline stealth that did injury to his every action, thought, and mood.
At the door stood three armed men; two had the long flaxen hair which proclaimed them Goths, the third was Venantius. A look of friendly recognition was all that passed between Basil and his countryman, who straightway admitted him to the room, announced his name, and retired. Alone his attitude that of one who muses sat the Gothic King.
"And when one is riding a carabao?" asked a scrupulous countryman of his neighbor. "Then keep on going!" answered the latter, who was a casuist. But in spite of the cries and gestures of the preacher many fell asleep or wandered in their attention, since these sermons were ever the same.
Pipes, whom he considered as his countryman, though fortune had disposed of them in different services, he invited him to drink a glass of wine, and accordingly carried him to a cabaret, where he introduced him to his comrades; but in the course of the conversation, which turned upon the power and greatness of the kings of France and England, Mr.
On one of her fingers I saw my diamond ring a circumstance which, as well as the company in which I found her, gave me a very indifferent idea of the young lady's morality. "'What countryman are you? asked the captain. "'I am a Frenchman, your excellency. "'So much the better! cried the young girl. "I saw with pleasure that, at any rate, I was amongst people who spoke my own language.
Son of a countryman from the village of Kuessnacht, set apart for study on account of his natural gifts, he came to Basel, where he remained till the ripe age of manhood, and found himself clothed with academical honors. Then he was chosen people's priest at Seengen, and unanimously by the Knights of St. John at Kuessnacht for their commander, in 1519.
This collection is only accessible through the medium of an introduction. As many purchasers of pictures often want them cleaned and restored, I would recommend them to a countryman for that purpose, M. Penley, No. 11, Rue Romford, whose efforts I have seen effect a complete resuscitation upon a dingy and almost incomprehensible subject.
In this picture, we see Cuyp in every respect at his culminating point of excellence. Not less fine, and of singular force of colour, is the landscape, with a broad river running through it, and a horseman under a tree in conversation with a countryman. PAUL POTTER, born at Enckhuysen 1625, died at Amsterdam 1654.
A few days after, it happened that a nobleman passed by the countryman's cottage; and when the good woman saw him, she said to her husband; "Go and invite this lord to be our guest; if you don't bring him here, I will beat you half dead." The countryman dreaded a beating from his wife. So he went and invited the nobleman to dinner.
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