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The wind sang mournfully over the sills of the window; thick snow whitened the panes; there was a humming in the chimneys. . . . She was jealous of Phyllis; that was why I knew that she loved me. . . . And the subtle change in Phyllis's demeanor towards me; what did it signify? . . . Gretchen was to be married Thursday because there were no proofs that Phyllis was her sister. . . . What if Gretchen had been Phyllis, and Phyllis had been Gretchen. . . . Heigho!
But lo! very soon Giles was there also and even as Beltane sighed, so sighed Giles. "Heigho a sorry world, brother!" quoth he, "a sorry world!" and forthwith fell to his archery, yet now, though his aim was true as ever, he sighed and murmured plaintively 'twixt every shot: "Alack, a sorry world!"
Quietly opening the window, she leant out gazing at the moonlight, as foolish girls will yet who does not remember, half pathetically, those dear old follies! "Heigho! I wonder what will be the end of it all!" said Agatha Bowen; without specifying what the pronoun "it" alluded to. But she stopped, hearing a footstep rather policeman-like passing up and down the railing under the trees.
And the Colonel, coming home from an evening with Mr, Brinsmade, found his daughter in an armchair, staring into the sitting-room fire. There was no other light in the room Her chin was in her hand, and her lips were pursed. "Heigho!" said the Colonel, "what's the trouble now?" "Nothing," said Virginia. "Come," he insisted, "what have they been doing to my girl?" "Pa!" "Yes, honey."
As to the inference deduced from it, in regard to Friedrich and the Earl of Bute, on a critical occasion, that rests entirely with Zimmermann; and the candid mind inclines to admit that, probably, it is but rumor and conjecture; street-dust sticking to the Doctor's shoes, and demanding merely to be well swept out again. Heigho! Barberina, though a dancer, did not want for more essential graces.
Often when our dinner was over, I read aloud to her in the Bible. She could read it herself. But perhaps she liked to hear the sound of a childish voice, and perhaps she thought that she was doing me good. Did she do me good? heigho! at all events, she left a beautiful memory to gild this dark twilight that grows upon my soul.
An excellent definition of the fellow, Miss O'Carroll, excellent, upon my honour. Ha! ha! he! Heigho! Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion is too much for me. A parcel was brought in for Mr Listless; it had been sent express.
"Heigho! I am always grumbling. As a fact, people put themselves out in the most flattering manner to be kind to me; I suppose I am as comfortable here as I should be in any place after H . "Little Cissy Bust found out that I was fond of flowers. Since then she pulls off a chrysanthemum every morning from the plant in her mother's window, and lays it beside my plate.
"I can tell you, my dears, that Rochambeau is drawing near us, and that there is likely soon to be a battle. Heigho!" "Is that bad news or good?" asked Euphrosyne. "My husband means it for good news, my dear at least, if Maurepas arrives from the south as soon as Rochambeau from the north." "I wish Maurepas would come!" sighed Afra. Madame L'Ouverture went on
"Heigho! you're a fellow that money can't purchase!" said the prince. "He is a fool who wouldn't make use of your services, and if you have such good sight, look and tell me whether it is far to the iron castle, and what is now going on there?"
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