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Mistress Dorothy, he went on, turning to her once more, 'what is thy request? It shall be performed even to the half of of my marquisate. 'My lord, returned Dorothy, 'it is a small deed I have strewn to gather such weighty thanks. 'Be honest as well as brave, mistress. Mock me no modesty. said the marquis a little roughly. 'Indeed, my lord, I but spoke as I deemed.
Those who were free betook themselves to their kindred, and their favourite employments. A few members of the household joined the army of defence. Among these latter was our friend Rais Ali, who, being a Moor, and having been a pirate, and still being young and strong, was deemed a fit subject to defend his hearth and home.
And even in the height of Whig rule and amidst the blaze of Whig victories, England rose in the Sacheverell riots, forced Tories again into power, and ended the Whig war by what it deemed a Tory peace. And yet every Englishman knew that from the moment of the Revolution the whole system of government had not been Tory but Whig.
It will be the province of Congress to provide for the distribution among those who may be entitled to it of their respective shares of the money to be paid. Although the sum awarded is not payable until a year from the date of the award, it is deemed advisable that no time be lost in making a proper examination of the several cases in which indemnification may be due.
Now, Thorod deemed he saw how things had come to pass; so he went to Biarg, and there found many folk, but he asked if Grettir were there. The goodwife said he had ridden away, and that she would not slip him into hiding-places if he were there. "Now ye will be well pleased that matters have so been wrought; nor was the slaying of Atli over-avenged, though this was paid for it.
He invented things for the pleasure of it rather than with any idea of ultimately profiting from the results of his ingenuity, which may explain why it was that his friends deemed many of his contrivances a sheer waste of time. Among other things that Jarley invented was a tennis-racket which could be folded up and packed away in a trunk.
"Gerda," I said, "have you forgotten how that in the holy island I was wont to say that I should not rest until your were back in your home?" "I thought that you had forgotten," she said in a low voice. "I had not." "I seemed to forget it, because I deemed it best that I should do so. I am but a landless warrior, with naught to offer. And you "
Expecting an exposition of the Clio scheme, she resigned herself, looking with some curiosity at the beautiful contour of face and drooping pensive loveliness, that had rather gained than lost in grace since the days when she had deemed them so formidable. "This is kind, dear Mrs. Poynsett," said the soft voice, while the hand insisted on a pressure.
"After I had stood in the thrall-market at Cheaping Knowe, and not been sold, the wild man led me away toward the mountains that are above Goldburg; and as we drew near to them on a day, he said to me that he was glad to the heart-root that none had cheapened me at the said market; and when I asked him wherefore, he fell a weeping as he rode beside me, and said: 'Yet would God that I had never taken thee. I asked what ailed him, though indeed I deemed that I knew.
To represent in a novel a girl proposing marriage to a man would be deemed unnatural, but nothing is more common; there are few young men who have not received at least a dozen offers, nay, more; it is characteristic, it has become instinctive for girls to choose, and they prefer men not to make love to them; and every young man who knows his business avoids making advances, knowing well that it will only put the girl off.
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