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The Goshawk was stamping with excitement. 'Not a moment to be lost, my lad, said Guy, catching his arm. 'Here, I've had half-a-dozen fights already for this bit of ground. Do you know that fellow squatting there? Farina beheld the Thier at the entrance of a tumbledown tent. He was ruefully rubbing a broken head.
The Cut nose borrowed a horse and rode down the flathead river a fiew miles to take Some young Eagles, which he intends to raise for their feathers. in the evening one of the young Cheifs who had given both Capt Lewis and my Self a horse came to our camp accompanied by 10 of his people and continued with us all night. one of our men exchanged a very indefferent horse for a very good one. our party exolted with the idea of once more proceeding on towards thier friends and Country are elert in all their movements and amuse themselves by pitching quates, Prisoners bast running races &c-.
The Thier was a faithful dog, but the temptation to betray his trust and pursue them was mighty. He began to experience an equal disposition to cry and roar. He hummed a ballad 'I swore of her I'd have my will, And with him I'd have my way: I learn'd my cross-bow over the hill: Now what does my lady say?
Look, my father! they dare not strike me in the street: you they would fell without pity. Go! what they dare in a house, they dare not in the street. Schwartz Thier had opened the door. At sight of Margarita, the troop gave a shout. 'Now! on the doorstep, full in view, my beauteous one! that they may see what a lucky devil I am and have no doubts about the handing over. Margarita looked behind.
The Goshawk drew his fair charge through them, followed by Farina, the Thier, and Rothhals. A last glimpse of the hall showed them still as old cathedral sculpture staring at white light on a fluted pillar of the wall. Low among the swarthy sandhills behind the Abbey of Laach dropped the round red moon. Soft lengths of misty yellow stole through the glens of Rhineland. The nightingales still sang.
Thus Goethe says that a man may use his reason only for the purpose of being more bestial than any beast: Er hat Vernunft, doch braucht er sie allein Um theirischer als jedes Thier zu sein. For not only do we, like the beasts, satisfy the desires of the moment, but we refine upon them and stimulate them in order to prepare the desire for the satisfaction.
This was the sight of a formidable staff, whirling an unfriendly halo over the head of the Thier, and descending on it with such honest intent to confound and overthrow him, that the Thier succumbed to its force without argument, and the square echoed blow and fall simultaneously.
'My name 's Schwartz Thier, and so 's my nature! said the fellow with a grin; 'but may I never smack lips with a pretty girl again, if I harm such a young beauty as this! Friendly dealing's my plan o' life. 'Clear out of my house, then, fellow, and here's money for you, said Gottlieb, displaying a wrathfully-trembling handful of coin. 'Pish! money! forty times that wouldn't cover my bet!
The guard was awaiting them outside. 'Come, my little lady, and with thee the holy sister! 'Tis no step from here, and I gage to bring ye safe, as sure as my name's Schwartz Thier! Hey? The good sister's dropping. Look, now! I'll carry her. Margarita recovered her self-command before he could make good this offer. 'Only let us hasten there, she gasped.
"Thier Temper far from Injucundity, Thier tongues and pens from Infecundity." Many other fulsome, turgid, and even whimsical expressious of praise might be named, for the Puritans were rich in classic sesquipedalian adjectives, and their active linguistic consciences made them equally fertile in producing new ones. Ready and unexpected were the solemn Puritans in repartee.
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