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The fancy seemed to be mutual, for, after a tearful farewell to the Guardian, the Mouse went off with the backwoodsman quite contentedly. Then Konky was disposed of. A hearty old lady with a pretty daughter and a slim son went away with him in triumph, and the band was reduced to two. "I do believe," whispered Bob to Tim, "that he's goin' to let us stick together after all."
HOLINSHED, Ed. 1587, p. 496. The only legal phrase, however, in these passages of "Richard II," which seems to imply very extraordinary legal knowledge, is the one repeated in "Henry IV.," "sue his livery," which was the term applied to the process by which, in the old feudal tenures, wards, whether of the king or other guardian, on arriving at legal age, could compel a delivery of their estates to them from their guardians.
'My guardian and director, cried Rose, 'must not begin his functions by misleading and sophistical quotations from the classics! He did not answer for a moment. They were at the gate of Burwood, under a thick screen of wild cherry trees. The gate was half open, and his hand was on it.
Come, thought Friskarina, that's one good thing, however; now I may keep all my spare bits for poor Tibb! So, after a little further conversation about the affairs of the nation, for Bear was a great politician, and read the 'Canine Guardian' three times a week, and talked very learnedly about the game laws, the friends parted.
At the same time the armed man fired. The discharge missed her and washed against the transmission machinery. Blue fire exploded from the room. The three men screamed in agony. Concussion threw Mryna helplessly toward the rim again. And the Guardian Wheel was plunged into darkness. Mryna's head swam; her shoulder seethed with pain where she had banged into the wall.
However, the Cure was obliged to explain to Jean that, though he was his father's heir, he had not the right of disposing of his heritage as he would. There would be a family council, and a guardian would be appointed. "You, no doubt, godfather?" "No, not I, my child; a priest has not the right of exercising the functions of a guardian.
When summoned to perform the marriage ceremony Dr. Williams no more comprehended the desperate opposition of Miss Lou to the will of her guardian, the shrinking, instinctive protest of her woman's nature, than he did the hostility of so many in the world to the tenets of his faith.
"It is not at all a fit place for you," said Clementina, with a touch of indignation. "Softly, my lady lest, without knowing it, your love should make you sin! Who set thee, I pray, for a guardian angel over my welfare? I could scarce have a lovelier true! but where is thy brevet? No, my lady! it is a greater than thou that sets me the bounds of my habitation.
I only knew that the can was taken from my hands the paper along with it; and, like a dream, the fair water-carrier passed from before me leaving me alone upon the spot! My eyes followed the receding form, now side by side with that of the chiding guardian.
You've no right to say that." "I have the right," cried Dick. "Hush!" said Austin, interposing. "There's no need to prolong this painful discussion. To-morrow as Viviette's guardian " "To-morrow?" Dick shouted. "Where shall I be to-morrow? Away from here unable to defend her unable to say a word." "If you said a thousand words," said Viviette, "they wouldn't make an atom of difference.
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