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Some whose names I remembered as children were grown out of remembrance, to be sure, to be buxom lads and lasses; and some I had left with black pates were grizzling now with snowy polls: and some who were born since my time were peering at doorways with their great eyes and little naked feet.
Human beings like those he heard of or talked with every day factory hands and mill-owners, parsons, squires, lads and lasses the Yorkes, and Robert Moore, Squeers, Smike, Kate Nickleby and Newman Noggs, came by, looked him in the eyes, made him take sides, compare himself with them, join in their fights and hatreds, pity and exult with them.
Perhaps no one ever sang "lads and lasses" that universal race, mainly the same, too, all ages, all lands down on their own plane, as he has.
And the question whether Jenny would wait for his return was left unanswered. "I'm glad to see thee back, my lass," said old Mrs Lavender. "Home's the best place for young lasses. Maybe, too, thou'lt be safer at the farm than at the Hall.
Besides, having to speak to simple lasses, such as you are for the most part, it had been folly to go seeking and wearying myself to find very choice and exquisite matters, and to use great pains to speak very measuredly. Algates, whoso goeth reading among these, let him leave those which offend and read those which divert.
Juicy strawberries and early cherries, red radishes, heads of cabbages, bunches of greens, and long stalks of asparagus were offered for sale, with roses and auriculas, balsams and early pinks, in pots and bouquets, and the ruddy peasant lasses behind the stands, the stately burgher women in their big round hats, the daughters of the master workmen with their long floating locks escaping from under richly embroidered caps, the maidservants with neat little baskets on their round arms, afforded a varied and pleasing scene.
As we all know, Venus was born out of the sea, and out there on that eastern peninsula, of which Yarmouth is the pride and ornament, there used to flourish bonny lasses, as if to show that the connection between the ocean and lovely woman is as intimate as of yore.
She came in among the groups, a changed woman her pallor and her listlessness were gone the old light was in her eye, and the bright color in her cheek, and she seemed hardly to touch the earth. "I'm just droukit, lasses," cried she, gayly, wringing her sleeve. Every eye was upon her; did she know, or did she not know, what she had done?
Your shy dog is always a deep one. Give me a man who looks me in the face as he would a cannon!" "Or a lass," said Peter knowingly. The grim Corporal smiled. "Talking of lasses," said the soldier, re-filling his pipe, "what creature Miss Lester is! Such eyes! such nose! Fit for a colonel, by God! ay, or a major-general!"
Jeanie extricated herself from his grasp, but did not make any reply. "I think lads and lasses," continued the ruffian, "dinna meet at Muschat's Cairn at midnight to crack nuts," and he again attempted to take hold of her. "If ye are an officer of justice, sir," said Jeanie, again eluding his attempt to seize her, "ye deserve to have your coat stripped from your back."
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