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Once or twice she murmured broken phrases: "My ewe-lamb; taken; I am very weary. Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, and is this, then, the end...." She rested heavily on Karen's shoulder in rising. "Forgive me," she said, leaning her head against hers, "forgive me, beloved one. I have done harm where I meant to make a safer happiness. Forgive me, too, for my bitter words. I should not have spoken as I did.
What the deuce, he did not like bad language, but really, what the dickens, had all these to do with his ewe-lamb, innocent little Constance, her virgin-white body and soul, and her sweet, wide-eyed prettiness? "My dear Louisa, no doubt you know what you mean, but I give you my word I don't," he began. "Hear, hear, my dear father," put in Mr. Quayle. "There I am with you.
But if, extended along the winding shore, you shall delight the cormorants as a dainty prey, a lascivious he-goat and an ewe-lamb shall be sacrificed to the Tempests. It by no means, O Pectius, delights me as heretofore to write Lyric verses, being smitten with cruel love: with love, who takes pleasure to inflame me beyond others, either youths or maidens. Ah me!
A ram or wether lamb, after being weaned, is called a hog, or hoggitt, tag, or pug, throughout the first year, or until it renew two teeth; the ewe, a ewe-lamb, ewe-tag, or pug. In the second year the wether takes the name of shear-hog, and has his first two renewed or broad teeth, or he is called a two-toothed tag or pug; the ewe is called a thaive, or two-toothed ewe tag, or pug.
She therefore had no objection to leave Peregrine alone with her one ewe-lamb, and therefore the opportunity which he sought was at last found. "I shall be leaving Noningsby to-morrow, Miss Staveley," he said one day, having secured an interview in the back drawing-room in that happy half-hour which occurs in winter before the world betakes itself to dress.
Other people hurt me when they touch me," she said. "Thank you!" Then after a little while she repeated humbly, "Thank you; they hurt me so." Gregory sat down trembling. His little ewe-lamb, could they hurt her? The doctor said of Gregory four days after, "She is the most experienced nurse I ever came in contact with." Gregory, standing in the passage, heard it and laughed in his heart.
Carroll, with an exceeding sober face, "'Fourthly, that we will not kill, or suffer to be killed, or sell, or dispose to any person whom we have reason to believe intends to kill, any ewe-lamb that shall be weaned before the first day of May, in any year during the time aforesaid. Have you ever heard anything of that sound, Mr. Chipchase?" Mr. Chipchase had.
But there was another fact, in the absence of which he would have had far more hesitation in seeking for his ewe-lamb the protection of sheep, the guardians of whose spiritual fold had but too often proved wolves in sheep-dogs' clothing: within the last few days the news had reached him that an old friend named Bayly, a true man, a priest of the English church and a doctor of divinity, had taken up his abode in Raglan castle as one of the household chaplain indeed, as report would have it, though that was hard of belief, save indeed it were for the sake of the protestants within its walls.
I cannot die in peace without first taking counsel with him how best to provide for the safety of my little ewe-lamb until these storms are overblown. Alas! alas! I did look to Richard Heywood She could say no more. 'Do not take thought about the morrow for me any more than you would for yourself, madam, said Dorothy. 'You know master Herbert says the one is as the other.
These he seeks, but seldom meets; these, if by chance he finds, he would fain retain for ever, and when separation deprives him of them he feels as if some ruthless hand had snatched from him his only ewe-lamb.
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