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The services were very short, and a sermon was a scarcely imagined performance. After compline came bed-time. Each girl took her lamp, louted to Lady Foljambe and kissed her hand, and they then filed upstairs to bed after Perrote, she and Amphillis going to their own turret. Hitherto Perrote had been an extremely silent person.
After them came fifty ladies and noblemen clad in white and gold, and a guard of gentlemen pensioners with glittering halberds. There was a sharp rustle. Every head in the audience-chamber louted low. Nick's heart gave a jump for the Queen was there!
When it was ended they took a brisker pace in silence; then, after a while, Hilarius said timidly: "Did'st thou sing of thyself, good Martin?" "Ay, lad, and of my mistress." He stopped suddenly, louted low to the sky, and with comprehensive gesture took in the countryside. "A fair mistress, lad, and a faithful one, though of many moods.
Denys louted low; the worshipful lady nodded graciously, but rapidly, having business on hand, or rather on foot; for in a moment she poked the point of her little shoe into the sleeper, and worked it round in him like a gimlet, till with a long snarl he woke. The incarnate shutter rising and grumbling vaguely, the lady swept in and deigned him no further notice.
She looked at him, blushing as a rose, and said: "Dear friend, I will tell thee; I knew that thou wouldst make our parting piteous-sweet this morning; and of that I would not be balked. See, then, how rich I am, since I have both parted from thee and have thee." And therewith she louted down from her saddle, and they kissed together sweetly, and so thereafter wore the way.
Mistress Chaucer sat down on the bench, and with quiet but rapid glances appraised the three girls. Then she said to Amphillis "Is it thou whom I came to see?" Amphillis louted, and modestly assented, after which the lady took no further notice of the two who were the more anxious to attract her attention. "And what canst thou do?" she said. "What I am told, Mistress," said Amphillis.
Men were repairing fences, and doing other Winter work in the fields, and from the woods came the ringing staccato of choppers. She met on the road leisurely-traveling negro women, who louted low to her, and then as she passed, turn to gaze after her with feminine analysis and admiration for every detail of her attire.
The special phaeton drove up with the young couple, talking and laughing together in the freedom of their privacy. The single spectator took off his hat at the risk of losing his precarious footing, and in respectful silence, bowed, or "louted low" another difficult proceeding under the circumstances.
Yes! she shall have a Christian burial. He drew his hand across his forehead, signed with the Cross, louted low before an ikon of the Madonna, and I heard him say fervently: 'Ago tibi gratias, Immaculata.
Be wise and discreet, and you shall find it for your good. Chatter and be giddy, and you shall find it far otherwise. Now, follow Mistress Perrote." Amphillis louted silently, and as silently followed. The elderly woman, who was tall, slim, and precise-looking, led her into the house, and up the stairs.
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