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I have the old story of the jealousy of C and M trumped up against me. And, to leave this miserable driveller without a pretence for his cowardice, the Prince asks it as a personal favour of me, forsooth, not to press my just and reasonable request at this moment. After this, put your faith in princes! 'And did your audience end here? 'End? O no!
"Forsooth," quoth Giles at last, "as thou sayest, Roger, the world waggeth well with me. Hast heard, belike, our lady Duchess hath been pleased to " "Aye, I've heard, my lord Bailiff who hath not?" "Nay, I did but mention it to two or three," quoth Giles.
Birdalone stood up in her craft, and the aforesaid tall grey man, who was unarmed, but clad in knightly raiment, stood on the stair and spake unto her, and said: Lady, this is an house where women enter never since first the roof was done thereon, which forsooth was but a year ago.
"Ay, but I liked her very well then. And Ravenswood's dirty usage of me shutting me out of doors to dine with the lackeys, because he had the Lord Keeper, forsooth, and his daughter, to be guests in his beggarly castle of starvation, d n me, Craigengelt, if I ever forgive him till I play him as good a trick!"
He would have welcomed his shame as his hold of her burden, whereby to lift it, with all its misery and loss, from her heart forever. Had Faber done so as he was, he would have come close up to the gate of the kingdom of Heaven, for he would have been like-minded with Him who sought not His own. His honor, forsooth! Pride is a mighty honor! His pride was great indeed, but it was not grand!
Methinks the only fitting reward for such treachery were to have a cauldron of boiling lead poured down your guilty throat. Reward, forsooth!" "Nay, but I cannot understand, my master. I am but a poor Scot who knows not the Norse tongue. Say, what reward do you promise?" "Fear not, my man. You shall have your deserts," said the captain.
'Or what love thou hadst was of such sort that thou didst encourage in her that which was evil, and then let her go like a haggard hawk. Thou marvellest, forsooth, that I should be so careless of thy merits! Tell me, cousin, what is there in thee that I should love? Can there be love for that which is nowise lovely?
Expand or modify it as occasion offers. Be as it were a collector of what are called "slights," and never let one pass you. Watch your friend in doorways, passages; when he eats by you, when he drinks with you, when he addresses you, when he writes you letters. It will be hard if you cannot catch him smuggling some deadly insult into your presence. Tax him with it. He did not think, forsooth!
Annette came almost breathless to Emily's apartment in the morning. 'O ma'amselle! said she, in broken sentences, 'what news I have to tell! I have found out who the prisoner is but he was no prisoner, neither; he that was shut up in the chamber I told you of. I must think him a ghost, forsooth!
So hewed they, and smote amain until their brows shone moist and their breaths waxed short; whereat Beltane mocked them, saying: "Ha sweat ye, forsooth? Do ye puff so soon? This cometh of foul eating and fouler life. Off off! ye beefy do-nothings! An ye would be worthy fighters, eat less and bathe ye more!"
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