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I'll buy me a fiddle in Italy, and hobnob with gondoliers, singing the songs of Tasso on Venetian waters. Never again expect to see my face at the window as you go on merrily I leave my native shore to-morrow, and am gone!"
"Were I your enemy your rival I should not need to do anything to gratify my enmity but refuse to reveal the secret of this screen, and you would have to die here alone with me." "Good heavens, Marie! How can you frighten me so?" exclaimed Katharina, in alarm. "Ha, ha!" merrily laughed the young girl, "then I have really frightened you?
The two women stood staring at each other in the stately hall. "Next month!" said mamma. "We can't do it, Cally! November would be better much better just before Thanksgiving, don't you think?" Cally laughed merrily, and extricated herself. "We'll have plenty of time to decide about that.... Now, I must fly and dress. I shan't have time for dinner, mamma.
"The young prince informed our chief that he was in pursuit of a young fellow who had fled from the town carrying off with him one of his favorite young wives. He said, merrily, he would have the ears of both of them before he returned.
"Well, Chéri," she said, merrily, "you are rather late this morning. Have you slept well?" Hugh looked at her; there was no mischief in her face; she simply meant what she said. In his astonishment, Hugh rubbed his eyes and then stared at her again. "Jeanne," he said, quite bewildered. "Well, Chéri," she repeated, "what is the matter? How funny you look!" and in her turn Jeanne seemed surprised.
"Jes step right in the kitchen," said the farmer. "Mommer'll take care of you while I go out to the stable for some rope and another hoss." The kitchen was a big, cheerful room, full of homely comfort. Bright red window-curtains were drawn against the cold white world outside, and the fire crackled merrily in the stove. Sandy and Annette stood, holding out their hands to the friendly warmth.
They both, although Susan was already ashamed of herself, laughed violently again. "Your uncle knows my aunt," she said presently, coldly and unsmilingly. "That's it," he said, relieved. "Quite a French sentence, 'does the uncle know the aunt'?" he grinned. "Or 'Has the governess of the gardener some meat and a pen'?" gurgled Susan. And again, and more merrily, they laughed together.
And the knights went to the women under the high pavilions, and passed the time merrily till it was time to ride home. At the fall of night, when the sun went down and the air had begun to cool, they tarried not longer, but arose, men and women together, and the knights wooed the fair maidens with their eyes.
His extraordinary spirit never burned more brightly than in these last, gloomy days. The money to pay the troops was exhausted. He issued notes, signing them with his own name. The citizens groaned under the triple scourge of scarcity, disease, and war. He ordered the bands to play merrily and discharged rockets.
Soon Susie and Mary came in with the baby; and, while they were pitying poor Annie and asking questions, they placed the child on the bed beside her. There it laughed and crowed merrily and stretched out its little dimpled hands, while Annie, unable to smile in return, wondered how it could be so happy when she was so wretched. It was late when Mr.
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