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Ay, when the ivy on my grave doth grow, When my dead hand the helm no more obeys, This book to them the twofold light will show, To which I ne'er forget to turn my gaze. One heavenward draws, with rays so mild and clear, Eyes dim with tears, when the world darkness veils, Showing 'mid desert wastes the spring anear, If, spent with wandering, your courage fails.
If I deceive you since, 'tis ne'er the worse; that I am poor is too true, but not so poor as to have nothing neither'; so I pulled out some bank bills, and gave him about #160. 'There's something, my dear, said I, 'and not quite all neither.
And the noo, when the wife and I gang aboot the world, there's good folk in almost every toon we come to to mak' us feel at hame. I've ne'er been one to stand off and refuse to have ought to do wi' the public that made me and keeps me. They're a' my friends, that clap me in an audience, till they prove that they're no' and sometimes it's my best friends that seem to be unkindest to me!
Rumple instantly struck an attitude, screwed his face into what he called an intense expression, and, waving one arm like a semaphore, declaimed in loud, clear tones: "Oh, Runciman, dear Runciman, You've proved yourself a gentleman, Both in pocket and in sense, For your care to send us hence; And we join in three times three, May your shadow ne'er less be."
"Ay," he sighed, "the Church is peace of mind. Till I left her bosom I ne'er knew sorrow, nor sin." And the poor torn, worn creature wept. And even as he wept, there beamed on him the sweet and reverend face of one he had never thought to see again. It was the face of Father Anselm. The good father had only reached the convent the night before last.
Whose lightest action was a grace whose lightest word a spell no limner's art, though ne'er so perfect, could shadow forth her beauty; and do I dare with feeble words try to make you see it?
But it beats me, it do, to think what child could be such a fool as to try to cross that there water such a thing's ne'er happened before. Mr. Mildmay did not like to give in, though he knew there was sense in what Tobias said. He stood hesitating, one boot half off, but there was not long to wait.
"His own? ay, for sure; and did him a good turn at the beginning, by preserving his kingdom for him when he was but a lad." "And could he find no better reward for her than this?" He could not have his will for her." "Could he ne'er have put up with a little less of it? Or was his will so much dearer to him than his mother?"
"Must you then leave us?" said Lady Margaret, her heart sinking under recollection of former unhappy times; "had ye not better send to learn the force of the rebels? O, how many a fair face hae I heard these fearfu' sounds call away frae the Tower of Tillietudlem, that my auld een were ne'er to see return to it!"
"'T will ne'er do to let him know you've honoured him by particular notice," remarked the commander; "for both at Boston and New York the ladies have pulled caps for him to such an extent that 't is like he'll grow so fat with vanity that he'll soon be unable to sit his horse." "Is is he a Virginian, your Excellency?" "No. 'T is thought he's English."
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