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"I know no such an thing then, Miss Die, for the miller swore himself as black as night, that he stopt them at twelve o'clock midnight that was." "O fie upon you, Thornie! would you trust to a miller's word? and these earths, too, where we lost the fox three times this season! and you on your grey mare, that can gallop there and back in ten minutes!"
They met as she spoke, and I observed them both look at me, and converse a moment in an under-tone, the young lady apparently pressing the sportsman to do something which he declined shyly, and with a sort of sheepish sullenness. She instantly turned her horse's head towards me, saying, "Well, well, Thornie, if you won't, I must, that's all.
It is an abuse; remove these thornie quiddities of Logike, whereby our life can no whit be amended, and betake our selves to the simple discourses of Philosophy; know how to chuse and fitly to make use of them: they are much more easie to be conceived than one of Bocace his tales. A childe comming from nurse is more capable of them, than he is to learne to read or write.
The expression affected me much at the time; for it was a usual custom of the poor old baronet's, when joyously setting forth upon the morning's chase, to distinguish Thorncliff, who was a favourite, while he summoned the rest more generally; and the loud jolly tone in which he used to hollo, "Call Thornie call all of them," contrasted sadly with the woebegone and self-abandoning note in which he uttered the disconsolate words which I have above quoted.
"I want to speak with you," she said, "and I have placed honest Thornie betwixt Rashleigh and you on purpose. He will be like Feather-bed 'twixt castle wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball, while I, your earliest acquaintance in this intellectual family, ask of you how you like us all?" "A very comprehensive question, Miss Vernon, considering how short while I have been at Osbaldistone Hall."
Percie, the son and heir, has more of the sot than of the gamekeeper, bully, horse-jockey, or fool My precious Thornie is more of the bully than the sot, gamekeeper, jockey, or fool John, who sleeps whole weeks amongst the hills, has most of the gamekeeper The jockey is powerful with Dickon, who rides two hundred miles by day and night to be bought and sold at a horse-race And the fool predominates so much over Wilfred's other qualities, that he may be termed a fool positive."
"Well, Miss Die, I'se go to Woolverton then, and if the earths are not stopt, I'se raddle Dick the miller's bones for him." "Do, my dear Thornie; horsewhip the rascal to purpose via fly away, and about it;" Thorncliff went off at the gallop "or get horsewhipt yourself, which will serve my purpose just as well. I must teach them all discipline and obedience to the word of command.
They met as she spoke, and I observed them both look at me, and converse a moment in an under-tone, the young lady apparently pressing the sportsman to do something which he declined shyly, and with a sort of sheepish sullenness. She instantly turned her horse's head towards me, saying, "Well, well, Thornie, if you won't, I must, that's all.
When Percie, Thornie, and Co. had respectively nodded, grinned, and presented their shoulder rather than their hand, as their father named them to their new kinsman, Rashleigh stepped forward, and welcomed me to Osbaldistone Hall, with the air and manner of a man of the world. His appearance was not in itself prepossessing.
"I want to speak with you," she said, "and I have placed honest Thornie betwixt Rashleigh and you on purpose. He will be like Feather-bed 'twixt castle wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball, while I, your earliest acquaintance in this intellectual family, ask of you how you like us all?" "A very comprehensive question, Miss Vernon, considering how short while I have been at Osbaldistone Hall."
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