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It was but a touch the lightest breath of natural feeling that broke up the hot crust, that shut down the fountain of tears Rosa's voice, tuneful and sad as a nightingale's, chanting the border-lays she loved so well: "When I gae out at e'en. Or walk at morning air, Ilk rustling bush will seem to say I used to meet thee there. Then I'll sit down and cry, And live beneath the tree.
Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine. While the sight of a moose-bird almost invariably put him into the wildest of rages; for he never forgot the peck on the nose he had received from the first of that ilk he encountered.
By way of jest, my morning daily paper constantly includes in its menu of "To-day" the Parkes Museum, Margaret Street, adding, seductively, "free"; and no doubt many a festive Jonas Chuzzlewit has preened himself for a sight-seeing, and all unaware of the multitudes of Margaret Streets surely only Charlottes of that ilk are more abundant has started forth, he and his feminine, to find this Parkes Museum.
To be sure he was a gentleman and a very high-bred one at that; and it is but seldom we have to do with any of his ilk. Breathlessly we awaited his first words. Not that he showed frenzy or made any display of the grief or surprise natural to the occasion.
Lady Lucy replied that if not, it would be calamitous. In which she spoke sincerely. For although now the ruler, and, if the truth were known, the somewhat despotic ruler of Tallyn, in her husband's lifetime she had known very well how to obey. "I have asked various people about the Mallorys," she resumed. "But nobody seems to be able to tell me anything." "I trace her to Sir Thomas of that ilk.
"If there is one masculine quality which I do appreciate," she said, "it is directness. I come because I love bridge and because I love my fellow-creatures and because my own friends are none too numerous. With the exception of those worthy friends of our host and his wife who are seated upon your right Mr. and Mrs. Horsman, I believe they are called we are all of the same ilk. Mr.
But this pleased Thyra. It eased the ache in her bitter heart to know that pain was gnawing at Damaris' also. Chester was absent from home very often now. He spent much of his spare time at the harbor, consorting with Joe Raymond and others of that ilk, who were but sorry associates for him, Avonlea people thought.
"Must that be sae?" asked Jeanie, with an imploring voice. "Hout, ay, hinny," replied the turnkey; "and what the waur will you and your tittie be of Jim Ratcliffe hearing what ye hae to say to ilk other?
The Healys and Sextons and all of that ilk know that while under an Irish Parliament their country would be ruined, yet that they themselves would pick up something in the general confusion, while Dillon, like Mrs. Gargery, could be ever on the rampage, carrying out his promises of dire revenge, and flourishing like a young bay tree. Nobody here rejoiced when the bill was reported amended.
It is Guy of Gisbourne, and thou mayst have heard it before. I come from the woodlands over in Herefordshire, upon the lands of the Bishop of that ilk. I am an outlaw, and get my living by hook and by crook in a manner it boots not now to tell of.
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