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He couldn't have got himself up with more care if he'd been going a-wooing," said Jo to herself, and then a sudden thought born of the words made her blush so dreadfully that she had to drop her ball, and go down after it to hide her face.
She remembered well what she had told her mother when her vague dreams had ended and Eben Merritt had come a-wooing. "I like him, and I suppose, because I like him I've got to marry him, but it makes me mad, mother."
'Woe is me, he sang, 'that I did not woo and marry in my youth, for the old men cannot hope to conquer the young ones when they go a-wooing. When this story was ended, Father Mikko stopped a while to rest, and the others discussed the stories that he had just told.
His face combines all the fineness of the finest woman's face, with all the strength of the strongest man's, and more, immensely more, all the purity and tenderness and power of God's face. It is God Himself in human form coming a-wooing to earth, and we call His name Jesus. This conception is the very atmosphere of John's Gospel. Jesus is the witness of the Father to men. He knew the Father.
Now I know a dozen songs with that name, and such things always come in handy when 'a frog he would a-wooing go, There's 'My Highland Mary' and 'Mary of Argyle, and 'Mistress Mary, quite contrary, and 'Mary, call the cattle home, across the sands of Dee!" As he rattled thoughtlessly on, nothing was farther from his thoughts than the self-conscious little Mary just behind him.
Pauline and she, who lived in different worlds, and yet were tied to each other by circumstances they could not control, would each work out her own destiny after her own nature, since John Alloway had come a-wooing. She would go back on the Warais, and Pauline would remain at the Portage, a white woman with her white man.
I should have been quite content to spend my days in the scrub, enjoying life in dark and savage ways, and my nights "alonga possum rug"; but the family had other plans for my future. It was a case of two blackfellows and one gin, when Black Jimmie went a-wooing about twelve years before I made his acquaintance and he fought for his bride in the black fashion.
"More than you think I have never seen the lady." "Never seen her? And you go a-wooing a woman you have never seen?" "It is so. I have never seen her; but his Eminence has, and 't is he who arranges the affair. Ah, the Cardinal is the greatest match-maker in France!
The Fairy Coquette turned pale, and consternation was general; but the woodcutter, now merry with wine, joined in the laugh. "Ah! how droll," said he, "red and black roses! A likely story, indeed, that a great king would come a-wooing to a woodcutter's daughter! Only a pitcher could invent such nonsense, and I shall teach it to utter no more."
'Maybe yo'll speak a word for him, mother, said Philip, annoyed at her silence. 'I'll do no such thing. Marriages are best made wi'out melling. How do I know but what she likes some one better? 'Our Hester's not th' lass to think on a young man unless he's been a-wooing on her.
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