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All those thoughts tend to thee, celestial creature, because in thee they return to the aim and object of my whole existence; but the thought I send thee, as 'twere a flower, comes from thee, exists only in thee, and returns to thee alone. "'Be not sad because thou lovest me; be not afflicted because I adore thee. The angels of heaven, what is it that they do?
"Glad will I be to see the queen even though she be old and not so beautiful as Mary." "Beshrew me, girl! let no such words pass thy lips," cried her father in consternation. "'Twere treason, forsooth." "Have no fear. I will speak naught of that order to any save thee and my lady mother. Discreet am I and full of matter, but nothing will I disclose."
David assured her that her husband's injuries were not serious, nevertheless she was quite certain Lem lay at death's door. "'Tis the first time I leaves home in most a year," she lamented. "I were feelin' inside me 'twere wrong to go and leave Lem alone. And now he's gone and been shot and liker'n not most killed." "'Tis too bad to make Mrs. Horn worry so.
"Charlie hadn't any more idea than a dead man what 'twas going to be like out here." "No; but he's done pretty well since he came, though," said Ned admiringly. "He's acted as if 'twere just what he'd always been used to. It's my belief that Allie's been coaching him; he'd never get on so well by himself, I know."
"Tush, he MUST be the prince! Will any he in all the land maintain there can be two, not of one blood and birth, so marvellously twinned? And even were it so, 'twere yet a stranger miracle that chance should cast the one into the other's place. Nay, 'tis folly, folly, folly!" Presently he said
And when they are taxed with these and many other discreditable practices, they deem that there is no censure, however grave, of which they may not be quit by their glib formula: 'Follow our precepts, not our practice: as if 'twere possible that the sheep should be of a more austere and rigid virtue than the shepherds.
'Thou hast restored my wealth sans greed, and ere * So didst, thou deignedest my blood to spare: Then if I shed my blood and wealth, to gain * Thy grace, till even shoon from foot I tear, Twere but repaying what thou lentest me, * And what unloaned no man to blame would care: Were I ungrateful for thy lavish boons, * Baser than thou'rt beneficent I were!
"When Melsh Dick heard that for o' course t' lad was Melsh Dick hissen he said that if Doed would coom wi' him, he'd sooin gie him what he wanted. He'd bin climmin' t' trees an' had catched a squirrel an' putten it i' t' basket he'd browt his dinner in. "Well, lile Doed hardlins knew what to do. 'Twere gettin' lat, an' there were summat about t' lad that set him agin him.
"I think I ha' got it, Will'm," said he; "I think I've found a way to stow the water even without a cask." "You have!" joyfully exclaimed William. "How, Ben?" "Well, you see, boy, the tarpolin holds water as tight as if 'twere a glass bottle. I tarred it myself, that did I, an' as I never did my work lubber-like, I done that job well. Lucky I did, warn't it, William?" "It was."
How easy 'twere to take the relic whilst Philip sleeps upon my bosom but how treacherous! And yet a life of competence and ease, a smiling family, a good old age; what offers to a fond and doting wife! And if not, toil, anxiety, and a watery grave; and for me! Pshaw! that's nothing. And yet to die separated from Philip, is that nothing? Oh, no, the thought is dreadful. I do believe him.
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