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He liked the Colonel's service, because he had very little to do, and there were plenty of people in the house as idle and feather-pated as himself. Colonel Lane was in Robin's eyes a good master, though old Mrs Lavender thought him a bad one. That is, he allowed his servants to neglect their work with very little censure, and took no notice of their employments during their leisure hours.

'No more than is the meed of her beauty, said Bedford. 'Sister Kate likes not worship at any shrine save one. Look at our suite: our knights yea, our very grooms are picked for their comeliness; to wit that great feather-pated oaf of a Welshman, Owen Tudor there; while dames and demoiselles, tire-women and all, are as near akin as may be to Sir Gawain's loathly lady.

For all their feather-pated vulgarity and they are damned vulgar, I must say they're marvellous people; they do take the rough with the smooth; they're all 'doing their bit, you know, and facing this particularly beastly world. Aesthetically, I daresay, they're deplorable, but can you say that on the whole their philosophy isn't an advance on anything we've had up till now?

"Well, I have not spoken to a female thing, save perhaps pretty Bessee, since I went into the Spital, ten years ago; and verily the sound of the lady's voice was to me as if St. Margaret had begun talking to me! And so wise and clear of wit too. I thought women were feather-pated wilful beings, from whom there was no choice but to shut oneself up!

Prince John struck his forehead with impatience, and then began to stride up and down the apartment. "The villains," he said, "the base treacherous villains, to desert me at this pinch!" "Nay, say rather the feather-pated giddy madmen," said Waldemar, "who must be toying with follies when such business was in hand." "What is to be done?" said the Prince, stopping short before Waldemar.

My sisters were entrusted to us. 'Not to me, said Louis. 'If the boy, your brother, expected me to find husbands and dowers for a couple of wild, penniless, feather-pated damsels-errant, he expected far too much. I know far too well what are Scotch manners and ideas of decorum to charge myself with the like.

Urban returned a favorable answer, and with it a crown of peacock's feathers set in gold a more appropriate present than he intended for the feather-pated prince, who was then sixteen years of age, and who, having been knighted by his father, set off for Dublin, accompanied by a train of youths of his own age, whom the steadier heads of the good knight Philip Barry, and his clerkly relative Gerald, were unable to keep in order.

Only as he went back and called again at Mrs. Lightfoot's for his basket, she asked whether he had found Seth Coleman, and if his brother had come to such preferment as was reported. "Yea," said Steadfast, "he hath a grant of land, and a castle, and a wife." "Eh, now! Lack-a-day! 'Tis alway the most feather-pated that fly highest." Cromwell's Ironsides feather-pated!

Margaret utterly amazed would have sprung forward and exclaimed, but Leonard was beforehand with her. "Never! never!" he cried, throwing himself on his knees and mastering his wife's hand. "Grisell, Grisell, dost think I could turn to the feather-pated, dull-souled, fickle-hearted thing I know now Eleanor of Audley to be, instead of you?"