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Crawfurd, that I used to wear when I was young; they have come in again for the hair, and Susie settled they were just the thing to give a more dressed look to her spring silk these easy way parties are so ill to manage, and Polly was of the same mind, and she came in to show me the effect, for I always like to see the girls after they are dressed, and be satisfied how they look and there she has forgotten the box, and she will appear quite a dowdy, and be so vexed."
How many dark conspiracies there have been, resulting in blood, wrong, and outrage, that some unworthy brow might wear for a little time a petty, perishing crown of earth! Oh, that there were more conspiracies like that in Mr. Walton's parlor for the purpose of rendering the unworthy fit to wear the crown immortal!
The squire drew his sword and severed at one blow the steel head from the truncheon of the spear. 'Arthur Fitzherbert, said the Baron, 'that stroke has deferred thy knighthood for one year; never must that squire wear the spurs whose unbridled impetuosity can draw unbidden his sword in the presence of his master. Go hence and think on what I have said. The squire left the chamber abashed.
"Or else," the lady thought, "she wears a mask to me;" and certainly it was a pale face that Emilia was beginning to wear. At last came April and its wild morning. No little female hypocrisies passed between them when they met; they shook hands at arm's length by the breakfast-table. Then Emilia said: "I am ready to go to Italy: I will go at once."
Mattie Gormer's undiscriminating good-nature, and the slap-dash sociability of her friends, who treated Lily precisely as they treated each other all these characteristic notes of difference began to wear upon her endurance; and the more she saw to criticize in her companions, the less justification she found for making use of them.
I shall wear a mask a black domino with a red rose on one sleeve, a white one on the other. Let your friend say, 'Lincoln. I shall answer, 'America. But do let him be careful." I said, "Yes; I will arrange it." "Oh, thank you. Talk now of something else." I said, "Yes, in a moment." It occurred to me that I might use Merton. "My friend will be in our army uniform, an entirely unsuspected man.
Hervey made a quick inspection of Tom's pongee shirt, but all he saw there was the front with buttons gone and the brown chest showing. "I couldn't pin it on there very well, could I?" Tom said, lured by his companion's eagerness into a little show of amusement. "Where is it?" Hervey demanded. "I'm letting a girl wear it," Tom said. "Oh, what I know about you!" Hervey said, teasingly.
"Yes; I saw you mend it at Cape May," she answered, the words forced from her, apparently, without her volition. "You are right. He had torn it while rowing me out, one morning. I saw the rent and offered to repair it. He makes his gloves wear well, doesn't he?" "O don't! don't! how can you! Alexandrine, wake me, for mercy's sake! This is some horrible dream." "I would to heaven it were!
The boy was so excited he scarce knew what he said; but his words seemed to please the little prince, who replied: "Nay, now, if you share the good offices of my patron saint, you must wear my badge too, for love of me. See here, this little silver swan, the device of my noble ancestor King Edward the Third, it is now my badge, and you must wear it for my sake.
And pray how much an ell was yonder broidered stuff?" "Two crowns, an't please your Grace," returned the supposed lady, making a wild conjecture. "Two crowns! thou foolish Antony!" Then recollecting herself, "two crowns! what, when mine costs but half! Thou presumptuous, lavish varlet no, no, wench! what right hast thou to wear gowns finer than thy liege? I'll teach you."
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