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"Joe, Joe, stay an' listen to me! For the sake of the past, listen!" But Noy rose as Mary cried these words, and before she had finished speaking he was gone. Thus the sailor, Noy, wholly imbued with one idea, absolutely convinced that to this end it had pleased Providence to give him life, went forth into the world that he might seek and slay the seducer of Joan.
Why the road goes down a coombe; and before you get near the turnpike, the coombe narrows so." The farmer illustrated the V by placing his hands at an angle. Mr. Noy found his snuff-box, took a heavy pinch, inhaled it, and closed his box with a snap. Then he faced the farmer's wife with a low bow. "Madam," said he, "you may put this young gentleman to bed, and the sooner the better.
It got a good deal of reading immediately afterwards, especially from Attorney-General Noy, who asked the Star-Chamber what it had to do with the immorality of stage-plays to exclaim that church-music is not the noise of men, but rather "a bleating of brute beasts choristers bellow the tenor as it were oxen, bark a counterpoint as a kennel of dogs, roar out a treble like a set of bulls, grunt out a bass as it were a number of hogs."
The glare from the lights fell on her face as she stood by her father's chair, looking curiously at the quack- doctor who, having sold many bottles of his medicines, noy picked up a guitar and began singing an old dialect chanson of Saintonge: "Voici, the day has come When Rosette leaves her home! With fear she walks in the sun, For Raoul is ninety year, And she not twenty-one.
Them as suffered for the sins o' other folk, like what she done, has theer hell-fire 'pon this side o' the graave, not t'other." "I lay that's a true sayin'," declared Noy shortly. "I won't keep 'e ower-long from your beds," he added. "If you got a drink o' spirits I'll thank you for it; then I'll put a question or two to she to Mary Chirgwin, if she'll allow; an' then I'll get going."
Ferrier accused Grimm of his German origin, and hinted at denouncing him as a Prussian spy. Gaspard le Noy linked his arm in Monnier's, and when they had gained the dark street without, leading into a labyrinth of desolate lanes, the Medicin des Pauvres said to the mechanic: "You are a brave fellow, Monnier. Lebeau owes you a good turn.
He's been wantin' of you all day, and he'd have been that dreadful disapp'inted if you 'adn't come. Always awful particular about his clothes, you know, so mind you're jolly careful about the measuring 'cause this overcoat will have to last him a long time." Taking his cue from these words Noy, still ignorant of the truth, made answer: "Iss, I'll measure en all right. Wheer is he to?"
Such built up imaginary histories of him and his actions, which only resembled each other in the quality of remoteness from truth. Once it happened that at a small gallery, off Bond Street, the sudden sight of precious things brought new emotions to Joe Noy sentiments and sensations of a sort more human and more natural than those under which he was at present pursuing his purpose.
The Reverend Timothy stowed away his snuff-box and gave me his arm again. "The Duke," he continued, "took my point. He is, by the way, not half such a fool as he looks and is vulgarly supposed to be. It is worth quotation. It ran: 'Dear Ted, Ordain Noy, and oblige yours, Fred. The answer which I carried back two days later was equally laconic. 'Dear Fred, Noy ordained.
"Nothing, sir leastways, nothing more than old woman's tales, not worth a man's heeding." "Has it by chance," said I, "anything to do with a hearse?" "A hearse!" Mr. Noy stared at me, and then his eye fell on the farmer, who had been helping to unbutton my tunic, but was now drawn back a pace from me with amazement written all over his honest face. "A hearse?" repeated Mr. Noy.
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