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They were evidently on intimate terms, for Cedric addressed him as David or Davie in the most unceremonious manner. Mr. Carlyon appeared to be quite young, certainly not more than six-or seven-and-twenty, and had an odd, characteristic, but most pleasant face, that somehow took Malcolm's fancy at once.
Seven-and-twenty years ago, and a bleak evening in March. There are gas-lamps flaring down in Ratcliff Highway, and the sound of squeaking fiddles and trampling feet in many public-houses tell of festivity provided for Jack-along-shore.
She looked startled and raised her curious greeny-grey eyes with a new expression in them. "To part with you, Bertha; but if you set your heart on Mr. Maurice Trevor you and I must part." "What does this mean? Do you want to insult me?" "No, my dear, by no means; but girls will be girls. How old are you, Miss Keys?" "I am seven-and-twenty." "And Maurice is three-and-twenty," said Mrs. Aylmer.
It is for the homeless, the actually destitute, that we open our doors day and night, without money and without price. It is a dark night outside, but if you will look up on this building, the words, 'No destitute boy or girl ever refused admission, are large enough to be read on the darkest night and with the weakest eyesight; and that has been true all these seven-and-twenty years.
Therefore, when I am gone, and, as it were, dead to you, speak of me, not as of an impostor, who long assumed a name and enjoyed a fortune that was not his own; but remember that I was bred to believe myself heir to a great estate, and that, after having lived till the age of seven-and-twenty, in every kind of luxury, I voluntarily gave up the fortune I enjoyed, the moment I discovered that it was not justly mine."
These, consisting of the marines and detachments from some old regiments, were embarked in October at the Isle of Wight, under the command of lord Cathcart, a nobleman of approved honour, and great experience in the art of war; and they sailed under convoy of sir Chaloner Ogle, with a fleet of seven-and-twenty ships of the line, besides frigates, fire-ships, bomb-ketches, and tenders.
It was thus that, after seven-and-twenty years' service and professed friendship, Anne emancipated herself from all obligations, and shook off the yoke which pressed too heavily on her mind, regardless of the confusion into which her weak compliance with interested persons cast the country.
She dare not face the agony, the agony which she was at present enduring, so she must go to confession, she must have inward peace. "So my life is over and done," she said, "and at seven-and-twenty!" She twisted in her fingers a letter which she had received that morning from Mademoiselle Helbrun. She was staying at the Savoy Hotel, and had just returned from Munich.
There was trouble wi' the lad-wi' him and Maister Robert at the Court; but I never knowed nowt o' the truth. And it's seven-and-twenty years since Maister Robert went." Gaston leaned over his horse's neck, and thrust a piece of silver into the woman's hands. "Take that, Becky Lawson, and mop your eyes no more." She gaped. "How dost know my name is Becky Lawson?
So they cried to him, 'What greeting, O our King? Now, he counted twenty and seven of them, and, fitting his gallantry to verse, answered: Poor are the heavens that have not ye To swell their glowing plenty; Up there but one bright moon I see, Here mark I seven-and-twenty. The damsels laughed and flung back their locks at his flattery, sporting with him; and he thought, 'These be sweet maidens!
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