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Wild's d tion was the universal toast; in drinking bumpers to which they had finished a large bowl of punch, when a constable, with a numerous attendance, and Wild at their head, entered the room and seized on Blueskin, whom his companions, when they saw our hero, did not dare attempt to rescue.
There are two aisles, on either side, in addi- tion to the nave, five in all, and, as I have said, there are no transepts; an omission which lengthens the vista, so that from my place near the door the central jewelled window in the depths of the perpen- dicular choir seemed a mile or two away.
It is hardly too much to say that she felt coerced by a force stronger than her own will, not only into the act of promising upon this singularly remote and vague matter, but into the emo- tion of fancying that she ought to promise. When the weeks intervening between the night of this conversa- tion and Christmas day began perceptibly to diminish, her anxiety and perplexity increased.
"And she don't even let ye have the skins of the dead lambs, I hear?" resumed Joseph Poorgrass, his eyes lingering on the operations of Oak with the neces- sary melancholy. "I don't have them." said Gabriel. "Ye be very badly used, shepherd." hazarded Joseph again, in the hope of getting Oak as an ally in lamenta- tion after all. "I think she's took against ye that I do."
As the consciousness expands on learning that what was fancied to be the rumble of wheels is the reverbera- tion of thunder, so did Bathsheba's at her intuitive conviction. "I feel almost too much to think." he said, with a solemn simplicity. "I have come to speak to you with- out preface.
George Sellars. "Seen 'im before," was his curt greeting. At supper referred to by Mrs. Sellars again in the tone of one remembering a lesson, as a cold col-la-tion, with the accent on the "tion" I sat between Miss Sellars and the lean young lady, with Aunt and Uncle Gutton opposite to us. It was remarked with approval that I did not appear to be hungry.
On my way to it I happened to walk through the one street which contains a few ancient and curious houses, a very crooked and untidy lane, of really mediaeval aspect, honored with the denomina- tion of the Grand' Rue.
If an emotion possessed him at all, it ruled him; a feeling not mastering him was entirely latent. Stagnant or rapid, it was never slow. He was always hit mortally, or he was missed. He had no light and careless touches in his constitu- tion, either for good or for evil. Stern in the outlines of action, mild in the details, he was serious throughout all.
There was an amazed murmur, then breathless stillness; the story rapidly unfolded itself, partly by words, much more by look and ac tion. There sat a soldier who had fought under Napoleon at Marengo and Austerlitz, gone through the snows of Muscovy, escaped the fires of Waterloo, the soldier of the Empire!
All felt that the place where her declining health began, should be the place of relief; so they applied once more for a shelter. "No," exclaimed the indignant Mrs. B., "she shall never come under this roof again; never! never!" she repeated, as if each repeti- tion were a bolt to prevent admission. One only resource; the public must pay the expense.
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