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Is he really?" panted her daughter, surveying the Englishman with candid curiosity. "Is he really!" Mrs. Gantry was profoundly shocked. "If you weren't out, I'd see that you had at least two more years in a finishing school." "Horrors! that certainly would finish me. But you forget yourself, mamma. You keep his earlship waiting for his introduction."
He started toward her impulsively. "Dolores! it can't be!" She avoided him, in an attempt to delay the inevitable surrender. "Ware danger, your earlship!" she mocked. "I warn you I'm a designing female. How do you know it's not the coronet I'm after?" "Dearest!" he exclaimed, and this time he succeeded in capturing the hand that she flung out to fend him off. "Wait wait!" she protested.
Then about that barrow the battle-keen rode, atheling-born, a band of twelve, lament to make, to mourn their king, chant their dirge, and their chieftain honor. They praised his earlship, his acts of prowess worthily witnessed: and well it is that men their master-friend mightily laud, heartily love, when hence he goes from life in the body forlorn away.
"Oh, your earlship," she remarked, "this, by the way, is Mr. Laffie Brice-Ashton. I'd like to present him to you, but I'm afraid your Right Honorableness wouldn't take him even as a gift if you knew him as well as I do." "Oh, now, Do Miss Gon-tray!" protested Ashton. The Englishman bowed formally and adjusted his monocle, oblivious of the hand that Ashton had stripped of its glove.
'Of course, says I, 'Jone'll have his coat made different in front, for single-breasted, an' a buttonin' so high up is a'most too stylish for him, 'specially as fashions 'ud change afore the coat was wore out. But I needn't bother your earlship about that. "'An' so, says he, an' I imagine I see an air of sadness steal over his features, 'it's my clothes, after all, that interest you?
"'Oh, no, says I, 'I mention them because they come up fust. There is, no doubt, qualities of mind and body "'Well, we won't go into that, said his earlship, 'an' I want to ask you a question. I suppose you represent the middle class in your country? "'I don't know 'zactly where society splits with us, says I, 'but I guess I'm somewhere nigh the crack.
"'Well, said his earlship, when I'd got through, an' he kind o' looked as if he didn't know whether to laugh or not, 'if you represent the feelin's of your class in your country, I reckon they're not just ready for a aristocracy yit. "An' with that he give me a little nod, an' walked off into another room.
Mary, thou shalt have my Milan hauberk and good Spanish sword." "I thank your noble earlship, Sir Gilbert Hay, but the yoke with which your brave ancestor turned the battle at Loncarty would serve my turn well enough.
Early in the month of February, 871, just as the walls of his fort had begun to rise, a messenger arrived from the king bidding Edmund assemble all the men in his earlship and march at once to join him near Devizes, as the news had come that a great Danish fleet had sailed up the Thames and had already captured the royal town of Reading.
"Mamma was just going to run the steam-roller over me, simply because I said Jimmy's mustache is cute. It is cute, isn't it?" "'Jimmy'?" inquired Genevieve, moving to a chair beside Mrs. Gantry. "His honorable earlship, then since mamma is with us." "You may leave the room," said her mother. "I may," repeated the girl.
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