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In this she was doubtless right; yet was I startled when, with the steadfast will which she ever showed, she said that, after duly weighing the matter, she had made up her mind to accept the Magister.
Magister Sutor ordered the roast meats, and his companion Stubenrauch all the other requisites for a substantial meal, in which they had made considerable progress, while the artist was still engaged in ministering to the sick lad, in which kindly office the little man, who had been hidden under the straw in the wagon, stoutly assisted.
'For, said his better half, standing before him with a great loaf clasped to her bosom, 'if you turn a horse from the stable between full and half full, like as not he will return of fair will to the crib. 'Oh Venus and Hebe in one body, the magister said, 'I am minded to end here my scholarly days. 'I am minded that ye shall travel far erstwhile, she answered.
Forty-seven she might have been, and she called herself the Widow Annot. The magister sat over his fire with his gown parted from his legs to warm his shins, but his hands waved angrily and his face was crestfallen. 'Oh, keeper of a tavern, he said. 'It is set down in holy writ that it is not good for a man to be alone.
The old man listened to his grandson, smiling maliciously and with pride; the printer shrugged his shoulders bitterly; the muffled sounds and the voices through the house-end continued, and the boy talked on, laying down the law valiantly and with a cheerful voice.... He would gain advancement at Court through his sister's marriage with the magister.
Moor thought it commendable and right, for Ulrich to take upon himself the labor and constraint of studying a language, and promised, when the lessons were over, to give a fitting payment to the Magister, who seemed to have scanty means of livelihood. The master ought to have been well disposed towards worthy Kochel, for the latter was an enthusiastic admirer of his works.
Magister Nicholas Udal, the Lady Mary's pedagogue, was very hungry and very cold. He stood undecided in the mud of a lane in the Austin Friars. The quickset hedges on either side were only waist high and did not shelter him. The little houses all round him of white daub with grey corner beams had been part of the old friars' stables and offices.
'This woman shall be Queen if Cromwell fall, the magister said, 'and I shall rise with her. 'But is no woman from Cleves' Queen there now? she asked. 'Cicely, he answered highly, 'you know much of capons and beeves, but there are queens that are none and do not queen it, and queans that are no queens and queen it. 'And so 'twill be whilst men are men, she retorted.
The treatise was "extraordinarily good," they had been very sorry not to give me the prize; but I was not to bear them any ill- will for that; they had acted as their consciences dictated. In eighteen months I should be ready to take my Magister examination; the old poet thought he might venture to prophesy that I should do well.
You know me all the same; you know when I say yes it is yes. A word is enough for Monseigneur, you know. Magister dixit. Marcel knew the character of the old Curé well enough to know that he was capable of keeping his word. Fearing to irritate him more by his obstinacy, he thought it better to appear to yield. It is time for Mass, he said. We will talk about that again.
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