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At this meeting Joseph seemed to desire nothing so much as to recommend himself by an amiable bearing. Impossible to speak with more engaging frankness than he did whilst strolling away from Hanover Street in Sidney's company. Thereafter the two saw a great deal of each other.
His hair is quite gray over his ears." Joe cheered. "What's his name?" "K. Le Moyne." "That's what he said." Interest in the roomer died away. The boy fell into the ecstasy of content that always came with Sidney's presence. His inarticulate young soul was swelling with thoughts that he did not know how to put into words.
Her eyes were constantly regarding him, like sheep feeding on the pasture of his face: I think I have used a figure of sir Philip Sidney's. But say rather the thoughts that strayed over his face were the sheep to which all her life she had been the devoted shepherdess. At Corbyknowe things went on as hitherto. Kirsty was in no danger of tiring of the even flow of her life.
In August he had, through the influence of his uncle Leicester, become reconciled with the Queen, and a little later took up his residence at Leicester House, from which this letter is dated. It is a mere trifle, yet it illustrates very strikingly and even touchingly Sidney's serious, sweet, and beautiful character.
She always did since I was eight. 'Seven, Miss, was when you began to 'unt, said Rhoda, setting down more buttered toast. 'And so, the M.F.H. was saying to Midmore, 'when he got to your brute Sidney's land, we had to whip 'em off. It's a regular Alsatia for 'em. They know it.
Your Lordship never heard of such desperate charges as they gave upon the enemies in the face of their muskets." He described Sidney's wound as "very dangerous, the bone being broken in pieces;" but said that the surgeons were in good hope. "I pray God to save his life," said the Earl, "and I care not how lame he be."
Look at his notion of "the very manners" of early post-Roman Britain in Cymbeline and King Lear! Mon Dieu! do historians NOT treat of "matters of curious research" and of statutes and of treaties? As for "old romances," they were current and popular. The "occult" sources of King Lear are a popular tale attached to legendary "history" and a story in Sidney's Arcadia. Will, whom Mr.
Other marks of Sidney's style belong similarly to poetry rather than to prose. In its day the Arcadia was hailed as a reformation by men nauseated by the rhythmical patterns of Lyly.
On the grass terrace over the valley, where ran Sidney's unlucky river, was a magnolia full of creamy blossoms among waxed leaves. Its silhouette against the sky was quaintly heart-shaped. Under her mask of languor, Carlotta's heart was beating wildly. What an adventure! What a night! Let him lose his head a little; she could keep hers. If she were skillful and played things right, who could tell?
Sidney fell into the river. They had released Reginald, released him with the tribute of a shamefaced tear on Sidney's part, and a handful of chestnuts from K. The little squirrel had squeaked his gladness, and, tail erect, had darted into the grass. "Ungrateful little beast!" said Sidney, and dried her eyes. "Do you suppose he'll ever think of the nuts again, or find them?"
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