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The silk-petticoat Council of Notables in Delhi decided by a tidal-wave of womanly intuition, that the gallant and debonnair Major Alan Hawke would marry "the lovely and accomplished heiress," and so the white-bosomed beauties of the capital of Oude turned again lazily to their respective sins of omission and commission, and to the glitter of their respective booths in Vanity Fair!
The death-gale pass'd by And his breath failed to smother, Yet ne'er shall he wake To the voice of his mother Alas! for the white man! o'er deserts a ranger, No more shall we welcome the white-bosomed stranger! "O loved of the lotus Thy waters adorning, Pour, Joliba! pour Thy full streams to the morning?
His wife from her bower May look forth in her sorrow, But he shall ne'er come To her hope of to-morrow! Alas! for the white man! o'er deserts a ranger, No more shall we welcome the white-bosomed stranger!" Tuckey, Peddie, and Gray's Expeditions. The fatal termination of Park's second journey by no means damped the ardent desire of acquiring fresh knowledge concerning the interior of Africa.
I suspicioned then what was comin', an' I advised wife to make up a few white-bosomed shirts for him, an' she didn't git 'em done none too soon. 'Twasn't no time befo' he called for 'em. A while back befo' that I taken notice thet he 'd put a few idees down on sheets o' paper for her to write her compositions by. Of co'se, he wouldn't write 'em. He's too honest.
She reviewed the incredible events of the past few days, and the actors drifted before her vision fitfully: Isabelle, white-bosomed and beautiful, in her prime; Tony Pope, passionate and wretched; Royal, low-voiced, dreamy, poetic, with his eloquent black eyes; Nina, newly awakened; Ward, weak, boyish, ardent; Madame Carter full of theatrical dignity and well-rounded phrases, and lastly simple, strong, anxious to protect them all, even from their own follies Richard.
White-necked and white-bosomed, all had great roving eyes, the gait of peacocks, and hair reaching to the waist. Later, when sleeping and when waking, both at noon and at twilight, he would seem still to be holding a pair of white hands, and moving in the dance. Chichikov's horses also found nothing of which to disapprove.
Oh! sealed is his doom If the savage Moor find him. More fierce than hyenas, Through darkness advancing, Is the curse of the Moor, And his eyes fiery glancing! Alas! for the white man! o'er deserts a ranger, No more shall we welcome the white-bosomed stranger! "A voice from the desert! My wilds do not hold him; Pale thirst doth not rack, Nor the sand-storm enfold him.
"Spare nothing," was the order of Taras. The Cossacks spared not the black-browed gentlewomen, the brilliant, white-bosomed maidens: these could not save themselves even at the altar, for Taras burned them with the altar itself.
Here was an Arcadia where one might well return to the simple life; a little bay of still water sheltered from the onrushing tide of affairs by the warm brown prairies and the white-bosomed mountains towering through their draperies of blue-purple mist. It was life as far removed from his accustomed circles as if he had been suddenly spirited to a different planet.
"Through the deep forest Fierce lions are prowling; 'Mid thickets entangling, Hyenas are howling; There should he wander, Where danger lurks ever; To his home, where the sun sets, Return shall he never. Alas! for the white man! o'er deserts a ranger, No more shall we welcome the white-bosomed stranger! "The hands of the Moor In his wrath do they bind him?
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