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Turnbull eyed him indignantly, and then, sitting in a very upright position, slowly filled his pipe, and declining a proffered match rose and took one from the mantel-piece. "I was doing the best I could for you," he said, staring hard at the ingrate. "I was trying to make Venia see what a careful husband you would make.
"That girl sings well. Do you know her Miss Davison? A good fellow, nevertheless, but a silly! She is a good fellow, too, rather the cleverest of the twain, and perhaps the oldest. The match, if match it really is to be, none of the wisest for that very reason.
In outer aspect, Pip and Dough-Boy made a match, like a black pony and a white one, of equal developments, though of dissimilar color, driven in one eccentric span.
Now the savages would be likely to follow him alone, and he noted by the sounds that they had turned aside to do so. At this moment Henry Ware felt nothing but exultation that he, a boy, should prove himself a match for all the cunning of the forest-bred, and he thought not at all of the pursuit that came so fiercely behind him.
He climbed the belfry stairs once more, lighting himself at intervals by striking a wooden match; for through the narrow loopholes in the walls the moonbeams did not penetrate.
"What made you run in the manner that you did?" he asked, as I assisted him to rise. "I but followed your example, and I begin to think that I followed a very poor one," I replied. "I am of the same opinion, for I don't believe that we saw any thing excepting a ram anxious for a hunting match. Let us return."
For some reason, the match had never come off, and although she might convince herself that the simplest reason incompatibility was the true one, Miss Gabriel could hardly have been unaware that the women looked upon her as one who had missed her chance, and even blamed her a little as women always will in such cases in a conspiracy of sex acknowledging its weakness.
Do you think, because Sunderland took a fancy to make you a great man in the state, that he, or his master, could make you as great in wit as Nature made me? No, no; wit is like grace, it must be given from above. You can no more get that from the king than my lords the bishops can the other. And, though I will own you had some, yet believe me, my good friend, it was no match for mine.
Now, says he, I never seed a man yet that was a match for me; would you have any objection jist to let me be availed of your strength here in a friendly way, by ourselves, where no soul would be the wiser; if you will I'll keep dark about it, I swan. Go your way, said the Parson, and tempt me not; you are a carnal minded wicked man, and I take no pleasure in such vain idle sports.
"Won't it be for the last time, Patrick," replied Judith, with her apron up to her eyes. "If I've any voice in the matter, I say no. Please the pigs, I'll come back a colonel." "Then you'll be no match for Judith McCrae," replied the sobbing girl. "Shoot easy, my Judith, that's touching my honour; if I'm a general it will be all the same." "Oh, Patrick! Patrick!"
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