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"What is youth or sex or beauty in the All-Commander's sight? For the arm that smote and spared not, shall His wisdom spare to smite? Yet, love redeems the loving; yet in thy need avail The Soul whose light surrounds thee, the faith that will not fail. Thy lips shall soothe the terror, call to yon couch afar The solace of the Serpent, the shadow of the Star!
"Joomp into t'mizzen-chains, and pick off yon chap at the helm, as he cooms under ma counter." He thrust a pistol into the boy's hands. How limp the lad felt beside this masterful old man! In another moment he was standing in the chains, the dark and giddy waters swirling beneath him. The blood thumped in his temples. Was it to be his St. Vincent? his chance? The lugger came tearing up.
"Cocking mains, my dear," corrected the Colonel, and then kept on, earnestly, to Anita. "Yon can scarcely imagine the horrors of a cockpit. The poor gamecocks, with cruel spurs upon their feet, tearing each other to pieces, and blood and feathers all over the place." "You seem wonderfully familiar with cockpits," remarked Mrs. Fortescue.
"What I hailed ye for was only this," he said, after I had shaken hands with him. "I saw you a minnit ago standin' over in yon box chirpin' with a lady a young lady, peart and pretty. Might you be telling me her name?"
The tract lying north and east of this river is yet new to us, and, since you will be led by me, we will march for some hours hither and yon through its length and breadth, making our randevous where night may overtake us, and returning hither to meet the shallop to-morrow."
For instance, now, when I coom here at first, there was a great shed in yon hollow; an' every mornin' th' men had to pass through that shed one after another, an' have their names booked for th' day. The result wur, that after they'd walked through th' shed, there was many on 'em walked out at t'other end o' th' moor straight into teawn a-playin' 'em.
"With this handful," cried Wallace, "Heaven may find a David, who shall yet strike yon Goliath on the forehead!" Lord Mar and Lord Lennox now came up; and Wallace, marshaling his train, found that he had nearly ten thousand men.
Edith, too, remembered Phillis' saying that she looked like "Master Bernard's" wife, and Arthur's explanations seemed highly probable. "Dear, darling Nina," she said, kissing the pure white forehead, "I WILL be a sister to you." "And stay with me?" persisted Nina. "Sleep with me nights with your arms round my neck, just like yon used to do?
"Master," quoth he, yet upon his knees and viewing Beltane somewhat askance, "here is the best I can do for such as yon Gurth; will't suffice, think ye?" "Aye, 'twill serve, Roger. But, for the other matter " "Why see you, master, a man may freely speak his dear desires within his prayers more especially when his prayers are potent, as mine.
"Gerald, my husband!" urged Matilda, rapidly changing her tone into that of earnest persuasion, "wherefore do you hesitate. Am I not your wife, your own wife, and is not yon monster the wretch who has consigned my fair fame to obloquy for ever Gerald!" she added impetuously. But the spell had lost its power, and Gerald continued immoveable apparently fixed to the spot on which he stood.
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