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And out of the common they were Kit Lebow with her eight daughters, all wafting up the street like a bevy of peacocks in their best hoops and bonnets: Kit herself sailing afore, with her long malacca staff tap-tapping the cobbles, and her tall daughters behind like a bodyguard two and two Maria, Constantia, Elizabeth Jane, Perilla, Christian the Younger, Marcella, Thomasine, and Lally.
Stooping, I saw half-a-dozen pins gleaming in its brown depths. "A love-charm." The schoolmaster nodded. "Thomasine Slade has been wishing for a husband. I see no sin in that. When she looked up and saw you coming down the lane " I paused. The schoolmaster said nothing. He was leaning over the well, gloomily examining the pins. " your aspect was enough to scare anyone," I wound up lamely.
Milton's brothers and sisters were in the group can hardly be guessed; the two boys Phillips, and one knows not how many other pupils, fill up the interstices between the larger people in front; and one sees Christopher Milton, his wife Thomasine, their children, and perhaps the Widow Webber, as visitors in the background. Of the whole company, I should say, the mother-in law, Mrs.
By a second marriage, December 6, 1615, to Thomasine Clopton, of a good family in the neighborhood, he had the promise of renewed joy in a condition which his warm-hearted sociability and his intense fondness for domestic relations made essential to his happiness, if not to his virtue.
"Have 'ee heard the news?" she asked. "No." I turned round, thermometer in hand. "Why, Thomasine Slade's goin' to marry the schoolmaster! Their banns 'll be called first time nest Sunday." We looked at each other, and she broke into a shout of laughter. Lizzie's laugh is irresistible.
Their attitude toward the great Goethe, and his nonchalant polygamy toward them, is difficult for us to understand and approve. "The gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next did reign, And Joan and Jane and Andria; And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Katherine, And then a long et cetera." No real man is a misogynist, for not to like women is not to be a man.
It was the same year in which Shakspeare died, in a house built by Sir Hugh Clopton, a member of the same family-connection with Thomasine. Hour by hour, almost minute by minute, the stages of her transition are reported with infinite minuteness.
"He was afraid," pursued Sal, "of being put into a pie." She paused at that, giving her words time to sink in. The preacher didn't notice yet awhile that Long Eliza Treleaven and Thomasine Oliver had crept round a bit and planted themselves in the footpath behind him.
Presently she scrambled to her feet, glanced over her shoulder and gave a shrill scream. I, too, looked up the lane and saw, a stone's throw off, the schoolmaster advancing with long and nervous strides. He was furiously angry. "Thomasine Slade," said he, "you are as shameless as you are ignorant!"
I am pleased with the sober reflection with which thou concludest thy last; and I thank thee for it. Poor Belton! I did not think his Thomasine would have proved so very a devil. But this must everlastingly be the risk of a keeper, who takes up with a low-bred girl. This I never did. Nor had I occasion to do it.
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