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In saying to the country girl before him what would have suited the mass of country lasses well enough, Christopher had offended her beyond the cure of compliment. 'I am not disposed to tell the writer's name, she replied, with a dudgeon that was very great for one whose whole stock of it was a trifle. And she passed on and left him standing alone.
"I'll take the foals," said Sancho; "for it is not quite certain that the spoils of the first adventure will be good ones." By this time they had cleared the wood, and saw the three village lasses close at hand.
There was more than one bower composed entirely of rose-trees, and there were very long hedges of sweet briar and Scotch roses. The tennis-courts were kept to perfection in the Gray Garden, and all the lasses and boys of Northbury were rejoiced when an invitation came to them to test their skill at a tournament here. There was no girl in Northbury more popular than Beatrice.
He've allus bin fearful fain o' t' lasses, has Jim, an' I've telled him more nor once I'd have no more on't. An' them Frenchies is nasty good-for-nowts, I'll warrant. They want a few o' their toppins pulled." Here she paused, and the rest of her wrath was vented on the clothes in the tub.
I drank your health in a glass of ale as the lasses do at Hallowe'en 'in to mysel'." Arrived at Mauchline, Burns installed Jean Armour in a lodging, and prevailed on Mrs. Armour to promise her help and countenance in the approaching confinement.
As the church is destitute of an organ, he has formed a band from the village amateurs, and established a musical club for their improvement; he has also sorted a choir, as he sorted my father's pack of hounds, according to the directions of Jervaise Markham, in his 'Country Contentments; for the bass he has sought out all the 'deep solemn mouths, and for the tenor the 'loud ringing mouths, among the country bumpkins; and for 'sweet mouths, he has culled with curious taste among the prettiest lasses in the neighbourhood; though these last, he affirms, are the most difficult to keep in tune; your pretty female singer being exceedingly wayward and capricious, and very liable to accident."
While returning to the wharf we met several herds of the brown-haired goats driven by milkmen through the streets; and, assembled near the dock around a group of English Salvation Army lads and lasses who were singing familiar hymns accompanied by cornet and drum, we saw a motley crowd of men, many of whom from their diverse and peculiar costumes were evidently sailors from various ports of the world.
But you don't like Mr. Copley." "What has that to do with it?" rejoined Helen smartly. "I would go adventuring with any boy even 'Lasses." "Don't call him that," commanded Ruth. "Pooh! He likes it. Or he used to." "He is a nice fellow," Ruth declared, with more earnestness than there really seemed to be necessity for. "I de-clare!" murmured Helen. "Really! Does the wind sit in that quarter?"
Paimpol was always quiet on these long May evenings, even on Sundays; the lasses, who had not a single lad to make love to them, sauntered along, in couples or three together, brooding of their lovers in Iceland. "A word of greeting to young Gaos!" She had been greatly affected in writing that sentence, and that name, which now she could not forget.
"It 'ull be a long job o' work, but I can bide my time; but above all, if you wish me well, do not even breathe a word to Nelly of what I have said." From this interview Jack departed much mystified. "It seems to me," he muttered to himself, "lads when they're in love get to be like lasses, there's no understanding them.
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