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I tell thee, coz, that thou art the strongest man that ever I laid mine eyes upon. I take my vow, I felt my stomach quake when I beheld thee pluck up yon green tree as thou didst. But tell me, how camest thou to leave Sir Edward and thy mother?" "Alas!" answered young Gamwell, "it is an ill story, uncle, that I have to tell thee.
"On we went, coz, some six thousand of us, until we came to Issodun, and there again a very great thing befell." "A battle, Aylward?" "Nay, nay; a greater thing than that. There is little to be gained out of a battle, unless one have the fortune to win a ransom. At Issodun I and three Welshmen came upon a house which all others had passed, and we had the profit of it to ourselves.
Had you been dead and in your grave, the words that I spoke should have roused you like the trump of the archangel!" exclaimed Capitola, with the blood rushing back to her cheeks. "Your entrance was sufficiently startling, coz, but tell me over again what was the occasion?" "That caitiff, Craven Le Noir, has slandered me! Oh, the villain! He is a base slanderer!
But what have we to do, coz, with a century ahead of us? young as we both are, we cannot hope to live that time."
But on that morning, during the entire walk, he said no word to her which seemed quite to justify the telling. He called her by sweet, petting names, Anna, my girl, pretty coz, and such like. He would hold her hand twice longer than he would have held that of either aunt in helping her over this or that little difficulty, and would help her when no help was needed.
He claimed the dance and presently swept the Golden Girl from her place in the little circle. "Your cousin?" questioned Judith with a very comprehensive smile. "Bobbie, I never saw a girl blush as you did when a coz whispered into her dancing ear." Wise, discerning Judith! Bobbie blushed again, but she was not going to be tricked into telling her secret.
"'Coz we come down the road after we got through the last pasture " "Oh, he was so big!" Doosie shuddered as her imagination began to work more vigorously with the recital "bigger'n a man " "What nonsense." The twins had been telling all this at the same time, and their mother's common sense and downright exclamation brought them to a full stop. They looked crestfallen.
"Tato, my dear coz, is a boy," answered Kenneth; "and he disappeared ages ago." "You must be blind," said Beth, scornfully, "not to recognize a girl when you see one. A boy, indeed!" "Why, he dressed like a boy," replied Kenneth, hesitatingly. "So much the more disgraceful," sniffed Beth. "She belongs to those brigands, I suppose." "Looks something like Victor Valdi," said Patsy, thoughtfully.
"Good evening, Coz," said a voice that was a trifle shrill and loud for a public place, and looking up, the friends saw the subject of their conversation, who, with her spindling attendant was also taking a promenade. Stanton raised his hat with a smile, while Van Berg touched his but coldly. "I wish to speak with you," she said in passing. "I will join you soon," Stanton answered.
Beds may be ordered at 10.30. The scene between Adam and Orlando went off with good effect; and when Celia and Rosalind came through the trees in an affectionate attitude, and Celia's blithe voice broke the stillness with, 'I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry, there was a hearty burst of applause which almost frightened them into silence.
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