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I've no mother, so there is none to oversee me, and rule me, and pluck me by the sleeve when I would go hither and thither, so soon as I can be quit of my Lady yonder. Oh, there's a jolly life afore me." It was Amphillis's turn to be astonished. "Dear heart!" she said.
Amphillis's embroidery dropped on the rushes at her feet, as she sprang up and watched the progress of the travellers. She was pretty sure presently that the banner was white, then that some of the travellers were armed, then that they were making for Hazelwood, and at last that the foremost knight of the group wore a helmet royally encircled.
Not one word unnecessary to the work in hand had she ever uttered, since those few on Amphillis's first arrival. It was therefore with some little surprise that the girl heard her voice, as she stood that evening brushing her hair before the mirror. "Amphillis, who chose you to come hither?" "Truly, Mistress, that wis I not.
The man in linen alighted, and after a few minutes spent in conversation with Mr Altham, he carried out Amphillis's luggage, in two leather trunks, which were strapped one on each side of the mule. As soon as she saw her trunks disappearing, Amphillis ran down and took leave of her uncle and cousins. "Well, my maid, God go with thee!" said Mr Altham.
Amphillis's heart said "except," and her conscience turned away and declined to pursue that road. Norman Hylton had shown no preference for her beyond others, so far as she knew, and her maidenly instinct warned her that even her thoughts had better be kept away from him.
It did not come until Amphillis's head was on the pillow. "Cannot I please God and myself both?" "That canst thou, full well and sweetly, if so be thou put God first. Otherwise, nay." "Soothly, Mistress, I know not well what you would be at." "What our Saviour would be at Himself, which is, thy true bliss and blessedness, Phyllis.
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