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"Nay, Joanna, wherefore seek the impossible. In these latter days I have learned to to respect you " "Respect!" cried she, clenching her fists, "Rather give me hate; 'twere easier endured " "Why, then, this island is a rendezvous for the Brotherhood, soon will you have friends and comrades; give me then the boat and let me go " "To seek her? Nay, that you shall never do.
Palling seemed a little doubtful at first as to whether the bees might not consider this exchange in the light of an attempt to defraud them of their just due; but after some consideration she assented, and departed in search of the mark of complimentary mourning. At the door she paused, and looking back, she said with a low triumphant chuckle "I knew 'twere true. Didn't I say so?"
The sight was in itself altogether out of nature and surprising. As the night thickened, it grew brighter and more glowing, as if 'twere meant in earnest to warn us from the coast. But when the word was passed to send the glasses aloft, there was seen a glittering cross on high, and far above the spars on which earthly ships carry their private signals."
There are many allusions to this change of custom in Shakspeare and other dramatic writers, where the reader may find mention made of "Bonds enter'd into For gay apparel against the triumph day." Jonson informs us, that for the first entrance of a gallant, "'twere good you turned four or five hundred acres of your best land into two or three trunks of apparel." Every Man out of his Humour.
I wept, until I gave the earth to drink of my despair; But still from friend and foe I hid the woes that me beset. Then strayed I forth till, in the waste, a lion sprang on me And would have slain me straight; but him with flattering words I met And soothed him. So he spared my life and succoured me, as 'twere He too had known love's taste and been entangled in its net.
Sir Feeb. Ay, or a Ghost. Bel. Where, good Sir? Bea. Ay, where? I'd travel a hundred Mile to see a Ghost Bel. Sure, Sir, 'twas Fancy. Sir Feeb. If 'twere a Fancy, 'twas a strong one; and Ghosts and Fancy are all one if they can deceive. I tell you if ever I thought in my Life I thought I saw a Ghost Ay, and a damnable impudent Ghost too; he said he was a a Fellow here they call Bellmour. Bel.
Then to breakfast, which is scarce done but dinner stays for them. From thence they go to dice, tables, cards, or entertain themselves with jesters, fools, gambols, and horse tricks. In the meantime they have one or two beverages, and then supper, and after that a banquet, and 'twere well, by Jupiter, there were no more than one.
'But I'll go straight and see if the things be in the closet still; and thus I shall surely learn if 'twere a vision or no. To the closet he went, which he had not looked into since the stranger's departure. And searching behind the articles placed to conceal the things hidden, he found that, as he had never doubted, they were gone.
'Noble sir, the gem is little worth; but were it such might deck a Caliph's brow, 'twere a poor recompense for all thy goodness. This ring is a trust rather than a possession, and strange to say, although I cannot offer it to thee who mayst command, as thou hast saved, the life of its unhappy wearer, some stranger may cross my path to-morrow, and almost claim it as his own.
'Twere long to relate how that land-destroyer I paid in kind for his cruel deeds; yet there, my prince, this people of thine got fame by my fighting. He fled away, and a little space his life preserved; but there staid behind him his stronger hand left in Heorot; heartsick thence on the floor of the ocean that outcast fell.
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