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And he thought that her scarlet lips were sweet with promise and her glance a-brim with such a light as he had never dreamed to know. And now that he knew it and desired it, it was too late; an hour gone he might, by a nod of his head, have cast his fortunes with hers for weal or woe. But now ... Alas and alackaday, that Romance was no more!
No, it could not be possible; she had humiliated him too often, to suspect the imposture. Alackaday! Had any one else applied the disreputable terms he applied to himself there would have been a battle royal. When he became out of breath, he reentered the house to have a final look at the table before the ordeal began.
Brissot said: "You meet with neatness, dignity and decency, the chambers neat, the beds good, the sheets clean, supper passable, cyder tea punch and all for fourteen pence a head." Alackaday! the good old times. Next in importance to the landlord came the stage-driver.
Grizzle ate her bread, but Johnnie put his into his pocket, and when they got inside the forest at every turning he dropped a few crumbs of his bread. When his father left them he tried to trace his way back by means of these crumbs. But, alas, and alackaday! The little birds had seen the crumbs and eaten them all up, and when Johnnie went to search for them they had all disappeared.
"A galleon," then said Paradise softly. "They that sailed her yesterday are to-day at the bottom of the sea," I continued. "Alackaday! so are one hundred thousand pezos of gold, three thousand bars of silver, ten frails of pearls, jewels uncounted, cloth of gold and cloth of silver. She was a very rich prize." The circle sucked in their breath.
Oh, sirs, a woeful day for us all!" "A woeful day!" I exclaimed. "What's the matter?" The man, whom I recognized as one of the commander's servants, a fellow with the soul of a French valet de chambre, was wild with terror. "They are at the guns!" he quavered. "Alackaday! what can a few sakers and demiculverins do against them?" "Against whom?" I cried. "They are giving out pikes and cutlasses!
Alicia's son!" almost screamed the old man. "Now Heaven be praised, for I can make restitution of all!" Raymond raised his eyes suddenly at an exclamation from Roger, to see a tall dark figure standing motionless in the doorway, whilst Peter Sanghurst's fiery eyes were fixed upon his face with a gaze of the most deadly malevolence in them. "The sickness in the town! Alackaday! Woe betide us all!
And Nantauquas, after saving our lives like one of us, is turned Indian again! And your man is killed! Alackaday! there's naught but trouble in the world. 'As the sparks fly upwards, you know. But a brave man draws his breath and sets his teeth." In his manner, his rapid talk, his uneasy glances toward the door, I found something forced and strange.
I was a big man, and he took two hacks to do it; but he hacked my arm off just outside the shoulder and dragged me back and laid me down on the cane. "Yes, the sugar paid enormously; and I built for the Princess the church of her saintly dream, and . . . she married me." He partly assuaged his thirst, and uttered his final word. "Alackaday! Shuttlecock and battle-dore.
Still I hoped, like; I hoped. Alackaday! God help me, Salvation Yeo!" "What have you to do with this little maid, then, good fellow!" asked Grenville. "Ah, sir, before I tell you that, I must go back and finish the story of Mr. Oxenham, if you will believe me enough to hear it." "I do believe thee, good fellow, and honor thee too." "Then, sir, I can speak with a free tongue. Where was I?"
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