United States or Sierra Leone ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Among them were numerous tartans, either as kilt, trews, or plaid; the bonnet was universal, except that some of the officers wore steel helms, with a feather tip in them, and a clan badge of heather or whin or moss, and the dry oak-stalk whimsy of Montrose.
What! you are in the season of generosity, an affectionate son, wealthy as a Magyar prince of flocks, herds, mines, and men, and you let him stand in the shade deprived of his birthright? Are you a purse-proud commoner or an imbecile? 'My whimsy aunt! the princess interposed again, 'now you have taken to abusing a defenceless Englishman. 'Nothing of the sort, child.
'Speak thy fool whimsy, he muttered huskily. 'Speak! 'My lord, she said, 'where is the Queen that is? He flared suddenly at her as if she had reproved him. 'At Windsor. 'Tis a better palace than this of mine here. He shook his finger heavily and uttered with a boastful defiance: 'Shalt not say I shower no gifts on her. Shalt not say she has no state. I ha' sent her seven jennets this day.
I felt as solitary as a pelican. Remember, I was not fighting for any whimsy about honour, nor even for the love of Elspeth. I had openly provoked Grey because the hostility of the young gentry had become an intolerable nuisance in my daily life. So, with such pedestrian reasons in my mind, I could have none of the heady enthusiasm of passion.
For a moment she was silent; then she whispered: "What a silly whimsy of my father, his hatred of England! Does he imagine none of us is really ever to see the world? That reminds me, don't forget the Town and Country Magazine to-morrow."
Smoke demanded, half in irritation. "Lost your speech?" The old familiar grin twisted on Shorty's face. "Nope," he answered. "I'm a Indian. I'm learnin' not to show surprise. When did they catch you?" "Next day after you left." "Hum," Shorty said, the light of whimsy dancing in his eyes. "Well, I'm doin' fine, thank you most to death. This is the bachelors' camp."
We have challenged him, to be sure, and you will have to fight, but why are you so bent on going to-day? Before a duel it is the custom to send friends and settle the terms; the Count may still beg our pardon and make amends: just wait, there is still time enough. Some other whimsy must be driving you away from here; speak it out frankly: why such excuses?
None of the wonders of these strange lands held allure for him, since they but proved England's greater worth. But when twitted by his master he would make no confession of his home-sickness. "Nay master. I am a man and would hold it weak whimsy to let yearning for my home land encompass me. I go where you will and soon enough will I make return to our home shores."
Love's offspring was Marcia. Sixteen and the color and odor of an ivory fan that has lain in frangipani. And Hattie could sometimes poke her tongue into her cheek over this bit of whimsy: It was her well-paid effort in the burnt cork that made possible, for instance, the frill of real lace that lay to the low little neck of Marcia's first party dress, as if blown there in sea spume.
What farther whimsy of an unkind Fate had prompted his long walk? Sudden fury flamed in Stanley's heart; it steadied him. The twitching fingers on the pistol in his pocket relaxed into a calm and settled tension. With long strides he made his way toward Brown's hotel. There was death in his eyes; men who caught their gleam beneath a lamplight, hastily avoided him.
Word Of The Day