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"The heathen the skemp yon was the last o' the heathen hilt or hair o' him that I saw, and me mixed up wi' daftlike wars it was a packet that reached me in Dantzig," says he, "after lying a year, frae some sensible wench calling hersel' Helen Stockdale. . . ." I was dumb at that, but I was remembering the lass asking of the Scot that took the Pagan to the mouth of the Rouen river.
"A good squire that wench for a gouty champion," observed Oldbuck. "Hector, my lad, hook on, hook on Go with him, boy keep him employed, man, for half-an-hour or so butter him with some warlike terms praise his dress and address."
A wench now placed on a table some wine that the young man had ordered, and the landlord finally got rid of him by directing his attention to it. As he went to sit down, he bestowed on me the faintest smile of ridicule. I was too busy to think much of it at the moment, in ordering a room for the night and sending Nicolas thither with my bag.
"How's this?" exclaimed Mother Chattox, placing her hand on the beating heart of the girl. "What of Richard Assheton?" repeated Alizon. "You love him, I feel you do, wench," cried the old crone with fierce exultation. "Release me, wicked woman," cried Alizon. "Wicked, am I? ha! ha!" rejoined Mother Chattox, chuckling maliciously, "because, forsooth, I read thy heart, and betray its secrets.
She snatched it away, and rushing across the room, threw herself upon the settle, with her face in the cushion. "Pish!" said her father, peevishly, "she grudges a kiss to save her father from disgrace and ruin. It is a sinful, proud wench!" "Proud!" echoed the girl, raising her tear-stained face from the cushion and sitting up. "I was proud, but I'm not any more.
"Yes, Doll, I certainly wish it with all my heart," returned Sir George, affectionately, taking his daughter's hand. "Then you need wish it no longer, for I will not marry him." "What?" demanded her father, springing to his feet. "I will not. I will not. I will not." "You will if I command you to do so, you damned insolent wench," answered Sir George, hoarsely. Dorothy's eyes opened in wonder.
But at night, when the Prince clasped her close to his breast, lo! again she became the king's daughter, fairest and fondest of women. There be many royal ladies in Marshland, with bad complexion and thin straight hair, and the silly princes sneer and ride away to woo some kitchen wench decked out in queen's apparel. Lucky the prince upon whose eyelids Oberon has dropped the magic philtre.
He started up and exclaimed, "Cog's 'ounds, what am I about?" He instantly rang the bell, and a footman attended. "John, desire that wench Herbert to come here." "Do you mean Miss Herbert, sir?" "I do Miss Herbert egad, you've hit it; be quick, sirra." John bowed and withdrew, and in a few minutes Miss Herbert entered.
With this suspicion he got up, and lighting a lamp hastened to the quarter where he had heard the disturbance. The wench, seeing that her master was coming and knowing that his temper was terrible, frightened and panic-stricken made for the bed of Sancho Panza, who still slept, and crouching upon it made a ball of herself. The innkeeper came in exclaiming, "Where art thou, strumpet?
By and by the carts came creaking along, and then every man turned to and brought the provisions inside of the house and piled them up in the kitchen in an orderly way, while the old man, his wife, the wench, and the two gardeners stood looking on with growing signs of panic upon them.
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