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"Indeed!" rejoined the baronet; "really, I always supposed the French to be a most accomplished people." "Troth, then, they're not, sir," interrupts Pat. "O, by no means," adds mine host, shaking his head emphatically. "Yes, sir," says Pat, "the broad Atlantic," a favorite phrase of his, which he gave with a brogue as broad, almost, as the Atlantic itself.
The first lover, a man of very high spirit, then interfered by letter, and insisted on the right he had acquired by his troth plighted with the young lady. Lady Stair sent him for answer, that her daughter, sensible of her undutiful behaviour in entering into a contract unsanctioned by her parents, had retracted her unlawful vow, and now refused to fulfil her engagement with him.
Francis said: "Give ear, my brothers: brother wolf, who standeth here before ye, hath promised me and plighted troth to make his peace with you, and to offend no more in any thing; and do ye promise him to give him every day whate'er he needs: and I am made his surety unto you that he will keep this pact of peace right steadfastly."
He took her hand, and added, "By the mystic spell that drew us to each other, I conjure you here to plight your troth to me for weal and woe." "My father died shortly after that picture was painted," replied the maiden, "and my mother my poor mother soon followed him. The spirit summons commanded me to seek you out. I have obeyed." A strange marriage was solemnized in the Old King's Chapel.
And then let him consider further that, howsoever rich he be now, he shall yet, within a while peradventure less than one week walk out again as poor as that beggar shall. And then, by my troth, methinketh this rich man much more than mad if, for the wealth of a little while haply less than one week he reckon himself in earnest any better than the beggar's fellow.
Quickly finding the desired page, he began to read aloud: 'Dear, had the world in its caprice Deigned to proclaim I know you both, Have recognised your plighted troth, Am sponsor for you; live in peace! He read to the end of the poem, and then looked up with an admiring smile. 'An ideal! exclaimed Peak. 'An ideal akin to Murger's and Musset's grisettes, who never existed.
Her lovers peril had taught Margaretha beyond a doubt where her affections lay, and she showed such unfeigned delight at his recovery that he forgot the difference in their rank and told her of his love. There on the terrace they plighted their troth, and vowed to remain true to each other, whatever might befall.
But to Jenny's ears the exquisite wifeliness of the last verse was fuller of pain than all the rest, "Meantime I bless thee. By these thoughts of mine I bless thee from all such! I bless thy lamp to oil, thy cup to wine, Thy hearth to joy, thy hand to an equal touch Of loyal troth. For me, I love thee not, I love thee not! away! There's no more courage in my soul to say 'Look in my face and see."
Presently they heard some one coming up the road whistling gaily, as though he owned the whole world and 'twas but made to whistle in. Anon he chanted a roundelay with a merry note. "By my troth, a gay bird!" quoth Robin, raising up on his elbow. "Let us lie still, and trust that his purse is not as light as his heart."
"Troth, in one sense, if it please your honour, I serve twa masters," said Richie; "for both my master and me are slaves to that same beldam, whom we thought to show our heels to by coming off from Scotland. So that you see, sir, I hold in a sort of black ward tenure, as we call it in our country, being the servant of a servant."
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