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At curfew toll I must quit the castle, and will then, with your attendants proceed to the Garter, in Thames Street, where I will await your arrival. If we reach Hampton Court by midnight, it will be time enough, and as the moon will rise in an hour, we shall have a pleasant ride."
Quite near were wide streets brightly lit, teeming at this moment with life: carriages were rolling through them to balls or to the opera. The same hour which tolled curfew for our convent, which extinguished each lamp, and dropped the curtain round each couch, rang for the gay city about us the summons to festal enjoyment.
"Stay!" cried Henry, "I am about to visit the Curfew Tower, and must take you with me. I will explain my errand as we go. I had some thought of sending you there in my stead. Ha!" he exclaimed, glancing at his finger, "By Saint Paul, it is gone!" "What is gone, my liege?" asked Suffolk. "My signet," replied Henry, "I missed it not till now.
Prissy Andrews is going to recite 'Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight. That is such a good moral piece, Marilla, I'm sure it would do me lots of good to hear it. And the choir are going to sing four lovely pathetic songs that are pretty near as good as hymns. And oh, Marilla, the minister is going to take part; yes, indeed, he is; he's going to give an address.
"I took care that two or three of the most notorious gossips in Curfew street, who liked not to hear Catharine called the Fair Maid of Perth, should be possessed of this story of her faithful Valentine. They opened on the scent so keenly, that, rather than doubt had fallen on the tale, they would have vouched for it as if their own eyes had seen it.
Never before had the house seemed so lonesome, and as she sat on the porch and tried to talk with Aunt Susan her thoughts were elsewhere. When the lights across the valley, which served as curfew by saying bed-time when they went out, had disappeared, she came in, and seating herself in the dark at the piano softly played the chords and hummed the words of a song which need not be mentioned.
In 1241 Henry commenced operations upon the outworks of the castle, and the three towers on the western side of the lower ward now known as the Curfew, the Garter, and the Salisbury Towers were erected by him.
This pass he signed with his name, and sealed with his ring, bearing his arms. "So I wish you joy of this tryst and bonne fortune," he said, and departed. I had two hours before me ere curfew rang, and the time was more than I needed. Therefore I went first to the Church of St.
The marriage bells were to be his signal for departure; as they fell silent the Silver Heron should spread her wings. It was the evening of the first of June; the peal of the curfew had faded on the air and lights were being set in the great dining-room at Arwenack where the company was to sup. It was a small party.
The hum and murmur, and even the occasional shouts, of some of the festive multitude who continued revelling without did not long interrupt his repose, and in about ten minutes he was as fast asleep as if he had lain in his own bed in Curfew Street. Still harping on my daughter. Hamlet. Two hours before the black cock crew, Simon Glover was wakened by a well known voice, which called him by name.
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