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Bad luck it brought to a writer of bird stories; and when she knew what had happened, something like an ache in her throat seemed to choke her, something that is called anger the kind that comes when harm is done to little folk we love.
Is she a real, true beauty, or only just pretty, like ordinary folk?" "That must be a matter of personal opinion, mustn't it, Miss Mollie? Ideas vary so much on these subjects." "Checkmate!" sighed Mollie to herself. "He won't say what he thinks, and I can't be so rude as to ask directly, though it's just what I'm dying to know."
Myles and Gascoyne stood gazing out from the open casement, with their arms lying across one another's shoulders in the old boyhood fashion, and Myles felt his heart shrink with a sudden tight pang as the realization came sharply and vividly upon him that all these preparations were being made for him, and that the next day he should, with almost the certainty of death, meet either glory or failure under the eyes not only of all the greater and lesser castle folk, but of the King himself and noble strangers critically used to deeds of chivalry and prowess.
When you've given maist of the best years of your life to the public you come to ken it well. And you respect it. I've known of actors and other artists on the stage who thought they were better than their public aye. And what's come tae them? We serve a great master, we folk of the stage. He has many minds and many tongues, and he tells us quickly when we please him and when we do not.
"Thorbiorn Arnor's son, men said, Of no great deed was afraid, Folk spake of him far and wide; He forbade me to abide Longer on the lovely earth; Yet his heart was little worth, Not more safe alone was I, Than when armed he drew anigh.
After Cnut's short-lived triumph king as he was of Denmark, Norway, England, and half Scotland, and what not of Wendish Folk inside the Baltic the force of the Norsemen seems to have been exhausted in their native lands.
At this, Sherkan was transported for joy and his breast dilated, and he said, "By Allah, none shall come at thee, whilst my life lasts in my body! But canst thou endure the parting from thy father and thy folk?" "Yes," answered she. So Sherkan swore to her and they made a covenant of this. Then said she, "Now my heart is at ease; but there is one other condition I must exact of thee."
Then Folk-might started, and leapt up from the ground; for, sooth to say, he had been thinking so wholly of the Bride, that his sister was not in his mind, and he had had no deeming of whither Hall-ward was coming, though the others guessed well enough, and now smiled on him merrily, when they saw how wild Folk- might stared.
The large door giving on to the park was open, although the night was cool, and in the shadow I could make out groups of country folk gathered there to catch a glimpse of the festivities through the windows.
Saunders and her husband was her attendance at prayer-meetings when he said she should be at home minding her children. He used to accuse her of carrying on with the Scripture-readers, and to punish her he would say, "This week I'll spend five bob more in the public that'll teach you, if beating won't, that I don't want none of your hypocritical folk hanging round my place."
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