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'Yes, sure, I hope 'tis, said Loveday, without, however, showing any great hurry to burst into the frantic form of fatherly joy which the event should naturally have produced, seeming more disposed to let off his feelings by examining thoroughly into the fibres of the letter-paper. 'I was five years a-courting my wife, he presently remarked. 'But folks were slower about everything in them days.
Myles Standish, compact, hard-headed little captain of the Puritan guard at Plymouth, never knew the meaning of fear until he went a-courting Priscilla Mullins or was she a Molines, as some say? He had fought white men and red men and never reeked of danger in the doing it, but his courage sank to his boots whenever this demure maiden glanced at him, as he thought, with approval.
Didna I see thee, Elleen, clavering with that muckle Archduke that nane can talk with? 'Ay, said Eleanor. 'He is come here a-courting Madame Yolande, with his father's goodwill, for Alsace and Tyrol be his, mountains that might be in our ain Hielands, they tell me. 'Methougnt, said Eleanor, 'she scunnered from him, as Jeanie does at shall I say whom? 'And reason gude, said Margaret.
I'd advise you to thry. "Och! my owld granny sleeps with her head on a stone, 'Now, Malach, don't throuble the galls when I'm gone! I thried to obey her; but, och, I am shure, There's no sorrow on earth that the angels can't cure. "Och! "Malach!" shouted a laughing group. "How was it that the old lady taught you to go a-courting?" "Arrah, that's a sacret!
But in time the captain died, and his estates all went to the thrifty lady, to the exclusion of his own family; and to the blooming widow, thus made for the third time, there came a-courting the Earl of Shrewsbury; the earl had numerous offspring, and therefore could hardly give Bess all his possessions, like her other husbands, but she was clever enough to obtain her object in another way.
Why don’t you go? Keep your ribaldry for others.” “I am as good as you any day,” said Juba. “I don’t set myself up,” answered Agellius, “but it’s impossible to confound Christian and unbeliever as you do.” “Christian and unbeliever!” said Juba, slowly. “I suppose, when they are a-courting each other, they are confounded.” He looked hard at Agellius, as if he thought he had hit a blot.
And yet more I have observed which I cannot find room for in a chronicle of so many sad and bad and warlike happenings. So my advice to the young man who honestly goes a-courting is to keep talking earnestly, to occupy his mistress's attention withal, and progress in her favors during the abstractions of high discourse.
But the serious women who had set snares for him for the sake of a home had not attracted him; as for the better looking and livelier women who had come a-courting with alimony in view, they had unwisely chosen the method of approach that caused him to set them down as nothing but professional loose characters.
And sister, she's a-courting, and can't give her mind to 'em as should be. I'll carry the board for you, sir." "All right," said Henry carelessly; but, as they went along, he thought to himself, "So a skilled workman passes for a gentleman with rustics: fancy that!"
They looked sharply and furtively to see if Sylvia had a light in her best room, and if Richard Alger's head was visible through the window, if Barney Thayer had gone home and yielded to his mother's commands, if any more work had been done on the new house, and if he perchance had gone a-courting Charlotte again.
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