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I remember, notwithstanding, that opposite our house lives the sword-cutler, Master Palomo, who is always looking at me and never speaks to me, and the Virgin assist me, he appears a man of very good condition for a husband; but what maiden, unless she were cross-eyed, or hunch-backed, could like a man with such a flat nose, with that skin the color of a ripe date, with those eyes like a dead calf's, and with those huge hands, which are more like the paws of a wild beast that the belongings of a person who with them should softly caress the woman whom Destiny bestows upon him for a companion?
And so it was that Master Headley, a good deal puzzled, had to leave his apprentice under the roof of the old sword-cutler for the night at least. "'Tis passing strange," said he, as he walked back; "I know not what my mother will say, but I wish all may be right. I feel I feel as if I had left the lad Giles with Abraham under the oak tree, as we saw him in the miracle play!"
And the story relates that as soon as Maria regained her much lamented and sighed-for hair by the hands of the gallant sword-cutler, the master appeared to her much less ugly than before.
And so it was that Master Headley, a good deal puzzled, had to leave his apprentice under the roof of the old sword-cutler for the night at least. "'Tis passing strange," said he, as he walked back; "I know not what my mother will say, but I wish all may be right. I feel I feel as if I had left the lad Giles with Abraham under the oak tree, as we saw him in the miracle play!"
He had left all these outside, however, and advanced, civilly and condescendingly thanking the sword-cutler, in perfect ignorance that the man who stood before him had been born to a home that was an absolute palace compared with the Dragon court. The two men were a curious contrast.
"By my troth, my beloved one," continued the sword-cutler after a while, "if my countenance had only been more pleasing, I should not have been silent towards you for so many long days, nor would I have been content with, gazing at you from afar.
I shall work for myself, for as for thee it is already time for thee to marry." "For this very purpose am I come," broke in at this opportune moment the silent sword-cutler; "I, as you will have already recognized by my voice, am your neighbor, Master Palomo. I love Maria, and ask you for her hand." "Lack-a-day, master, but your exterior is not very prepossessing.
Dashing the paint out of his brush, he fixed a look of startling fierceness on Barozzo, and answered, with marked and bitter emphasis, "He was a sword-cutler, and made excellent blades." At this critical moment Laura entered the room with her mother to observe the progress of Barozzo's portrait.
He had left all these outside, however, and advanced, civilly and condescendingly thanking the sword-cutler, in perfect ignorance that the man who stood before him had been born to a home that was an absolute palace compared with the Dragon court. The two men were a curious contrast.
"But you are the best sword-cutler in London. You could make a living without service." "I am bound by too many years of faithful kindness to quit my master or my home at the Dragon," said Tibble. "Nay, that will not serve, good friend." "Then what can be done?" asked Perronel, somewhat in despair. "There are the young sparks at the Temple.
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