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Walpole says, "Jervas had ventured to look upon the fair Lady Bridgewater with more than a painter's eye; so entirely did that lovely form possess his imagination, that many a homely dame was delighted to find her picture resemble Lady Bridgewater. Yet neither his presumption nor his passion could extinguish his self-love."
"Where my lover calls I go Shame it were to treat him coldly 'Twas a fish that circled so, Turning over boldly." Dainty foot and tender heart, Wait the loaded ferry-cart. "Wait, ah, wait!" the ripple saith; "Maiden, wait, for I am Death!" "When my lover calls I haste Dame Disdain was never wedded!" Ripple-ripple round her waist, Clear the current eddied.
She advanced to meet her visitor, who stood during the space of a minute without advancing, so great was her astonishment. "You are surprised to see an old woman kiss her nursling," cried old Rachel. "But it would be odd if he did not, bless his brave heart!" "Not surprised at his kissing you, Dame Rachel," said Betty, a little less steadily than usual.
"I shall be resigned," he said, "not to see France again, if the King's Majesty makes it a condition that he restore to Pierre the dignity, while I give him back the domain of his fathers." Dame Rochelle clasped her hands hard together and sighed. She spake not, but her lips moved in prayer as if deprecating some danger, or combating some presentiment of evil. The Bourgeois watched her narrowly.
Even the tiny cow-bell, which once served to warn Dame Trippew of the advent of a customer, still hung from a bit of curved iron on the inner side of the street-door, and continued to give out a petulant, spasmodic jingle whenever that door was opened, however cautiously.
There was Te Deum with high mass in Notre Dame, and the populace was howling itself hoarse with rapture in honour of him so lately the object of the general curse. Even the Sorbonne declared in favour of the reclaimed heretic, and the decision of those sages had vast influence with less enlightened mortals.
From way up by the mill Dame Landfried was already nodding to the children for to meet children on first going out is, they say, a good sign but the children could not see her nodding, nor could they see her sorrowful features. At last, when she drew near to them, she said: "God greet ye, children! What are you doing here so early? To whom do you belong?"
To this prophecy the dame replied only with a look of indignation; and rocking herself to and fro in her huge chair, she remained for some moments in silent thought. At last she again wistfully eyed the hopeful boy, and calling him to her side, communicated some order, in a dejected whisper.
"Lads!" he shouted, "the gale is breaking, we may yet be in time to save life, and maybe to get salvage too from the wreck. We will be off at once." The crew required no second summons. Telling his dame to keep up her spirits, and that he should soon be back, he led the way to the pier.
At eleven o'clock an immense crowd thronged Notre Dame, curious to see the legate officiating, and gaze again on the pompous ritual of the Catholic service; but still more eager to look at the First Consul in the brilliancy of his triumph and power, surrounded by his companions in arms, all compelled by his will to assist at a ceremony at variance with the opinions of several of them.
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