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"Douce maiden," returned the Nevile, "it is happy for thee that thy sex forbids thee to follow thy father's footsteps, or I should say his hard fate were thy fair warning." Sibyll smiled faintly, and after a pause, said, with a deep blush, "You have been generous to my father; do not misjudge him. He would give his last groat to a starving beggar.
And when I'm taen and hangit, mither, a brittling o' my deer, Ye'll no leave your bairn to the corbie craws, to dangle in the air; But ye'll send up my twa douce brethren, and ye'll steal me fra the tree, And bury me up on the brown, brown muirs, where I aye loved to be. The famous ballad in Yeast might have been a great success if Kingsley would have limited it to five stanzas instead of twenty.
I am sure I shall never regret coming to India, and it will be something to dream about when I am a douce Olivia-sit-by-the-fire. You speak of rain and mud and fog, and it all seems very far away from this afternoon land. The winter will soon pass, and, as you nicely put it, I shall return with the spring. Calcutta, Nov. 21.
Laudersdale's velvets trailing over the drawing-room carpet. She was just entering, slow-paced, though in haste. She held out both of her beautiful arms. A little form of airy lightness, a very snow-wreath, blew into them. "O ma maman! Est ce que c'est toi," it cried. "O comme tu es douce! Si belle, si molle, si chère!"
Simple as she was, the bonne douce fille was not intimidated by the guard at the gates, the lounging soldiers, the no doubt impudent glances flung at her by these rude companions. She was inaccessible to alarms of that kind which, perhaps, is one of the greatest safeguards against them even in more ordinary cases. We find little record of her second interview with Baudricourt.
"It was I who was reading, mamma," said Isabella, pointing to the place over Mad. de Rosier's shoulder Une femme douce et sage A toujours tant d'avantage! Elle a pour elle en partage L'agrement, et la raison." "Isabella," said Mrs. Harcourt, from whom a scarcely audible sigh had escaped "Isabella really reads French almost as well as she does English."
He boasts in one of his rhymed addresses that he thatches the outside and lines the inside of many a douce citizen, "and baithways gathers in the cash." He adds "And fain would prove to ilka Scot, That poortith's no the poet's lot."
Among them was one Patrick Girdwood, the deacon of the craft, a most comical character, so vogie of his honours and dignities in the town council that he could not get the knight told often enough what a load aboon the burden he had in keeping a' things douce and in right regulation amang the bailies.
Mr Clues, as we were mellowing over the toddy bowl, said, that by and by the council would be looking to me to fill up the first gap that might happen therein; and Dr Swapkirk, the then minister, who had officiated on the occasion, observed, that it was a thing that, in the course of nature, could not miss to be, for I had all the douce demeanour and sagacity which it behoved a magistrate to possess.
'I would have you not heed what men say, he answered, grimly. 'I am douce to those that be of good-will to his Highness. Those that hate me are his ill-wishers. 'Then the times are evil, she said, 'for they are many. She added suddenly, as if she could not keep a prudent silence: 'I am for the Old Faith in the Old Way. You have hanged many dear friends of mine whose souls I pray for.
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