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He had loved many women in succession, and now his heart throbbed for two at once, and the Queen was the brighter of the two stars whose light entranced him. Therefore his honest soul would have considered it a crime to woo Helena now. Cleopatra knew what an ardent admirer she had won in the able architect, and the knowledge pleased her. She had used no goblet to gain him.
Every Indian was alive to the possibilities of the occasion, for it is well known that Mato, or grizzly bear, alone among animals is given the rank of a warrior, so that whoever conquers him may wear an eagle feather. "Woo! woo!" the warriors shouted, as they maneuvered to draw him into the open plain. He answered with hoarse growls, threatening a rider who had ventured too near.
He then pulled all he was able until either the line or the hook was broken, or his jaw was torn into strips. After midnight Philip was drowsy, and leaned his back against a tree to woo sweet sleep.
'What do you think, Kitty, would you like to have your fortune told? Kitty laughed. 'It would be rather fun, she said. And she listened to the usual story of a handsome young gentleman who would woo her, win her, and give her happiness and wealth. John threw the girl a shilling. She withdrew. They watched her passing through the furze.
The fright, of course, was succeeded by a laugh, and the fracture by repairs; and the whole by the following school-boy attempt at a copy of verses, upon the never-to-be forgotten occasion: Ambitious usher! there are few Beyond you that can go, In double character, to woo The lovely nymph below.
"It will be indeed in my favour," thought Randal, as he rode on, "if I can get them into the neighbourhood of London, all occasion there to woo, and if expedient, to win, the heiress."
Twice you refused to be my wife; you dared to despise my love and my power; now you shall feel my hatred and my revenge!" "Kill me!" cried the distracted Helen; "kill me and I will bless you!" "That would be a poor vengeance," cried he; "you must be humbled, proud minion, you must learn to fawn on me for a smile; to woo, as my slave, for one of those caresses you spurned to receive as my wife."
"Give 'em her, Clavvy, and she'll like you the better for it. She'll know, then, that you mean it." It was thus that Captain Boodle instructed his friend Archie Clavering how to woo Lady Ongar; and Archie, as he listened to his friend's words of wisdom, felt that he had learned a great deal. "That's the way I'll do it, Doodles," he said, "and upon my word I'm very much obliged to you."
She did not recognize him! The wife of Kovacs, the station-guard, did not recognize John Bogdan. The house of her parents stood next to the house of his parents. She and he had gone to school together, they had been confirmed together. He had held her in his arms and kissed and kissed her, heaven knows how many times, before Kovacs came to the village to woo her. And she had not recognized him!
In the tent of your mother's lover, I reply, at the side of him who once pressed her to his heart, even as I now press you, and with a fondness that was only equalled by her own. Come, dear Clara," and his voice assumed a tone of tenderness that was even more revolting than his natural ferocity, "let me woo you to the affection she once possessed.
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