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"Thou didst say thou wert of Sussex?" "So I am, but I was adopted into the earl's household three years agone." "Then he is Northern," said a listener. "No, he came from Sussex." "Say where? no tricks upon gentlemen." "Michelham Priory." "Michelham Priory. Ah! an acolyte! Tapers, incense, and albs." "Acolyte be hanged. He does not fight like one at all events." "Come up into my den.
"Now, Tom, tell us all about Hull's surrender," said Zenas, to whom the stirring story was already an oft-told tale. "Wall, after I seed you, three months agone," said Tom, nodding to Neville, and taking a fresh stick to whittle, "we trudged on all that day and the next to Long P'int, an' a mighty long p'int it wuz to reach, too. Never wuz so tired in my life.
Gower, in spite of her unkindness of an hour agone, feels sufficient courage to advance and offer himself a candidate for unlimited cups of tea. He is quite three minutes at her elbow before she deigns to notice him.
He took a liking to me awhile agone and partly for fear and partly for love, needs must I become his mistress.
"If you admit that supernatural agencies ever have in any stage of the world, in any place, way, or manner, or by any means had to do with earthly things, or have to do in those days, or will have to do in any future time or place on the earth's surface, your admission closes up your mouth for ever." "To do, in those days, on this night, not many hours agone!" cried Graeme, with rolling eyes.
"Sing us 'Calligan, Harry! I heard you sing it twenty-three years agone, in Motherwell Toon Hall!" "Calligan!" The request for that song took me back indeed, through all the years that I have been before the public. It must have been at least twenty-three years since he had heard me sing that song all of twenty-three years.
There was no need, had Margery felt any disposition, to attempt further concealment. The worst that could come, had come. "It is a book of mine," she quietly answered, "which I left here a short season agone, when the boy's cry started me." "Hast read it?" asked Lord Marnell, no less harshly. "I have read it many times, good my Lord."
I remembered the ride of the wild horsemen returning from the raid such long years agone, the old man who carried the babe, and the Red Axe himself, who now lay dead in the Tower my father, Casimir's Justicer, clad now as then in crimson from head to heel. Ere long I arrived at the Wolfsberg, and as I came near the Red Tower I saw that the gate was open.
There was, then, dear lasses, no great while agone, in our city, a Minor friar and inquisitor of heretical pravity, who, for all he studied hard to appear a devout and tender lover of the Christian religion, as do they all, was no less diligent in enquiring of who had a well-filled purse than of whom he might find wanting in the things of the Faith.
Witch times had not been so far agone that he felt comfortable, and, lest some sprite, bogie, troll, or goblin should waylay him, he tore an elm branch from a tree that grew before his sweetheart's house, and flourished it as he walked. He reached home without experiencing any of the troubles that a superstitious fancy had conjured.
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