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"But my father my father!" cried the Queen, "who ever bended that soul of steel?" "It is not my father I fear; it is thee and thy monks. Forgettest thou that Edith and I are within the six banned degrees of the Church?" "True, most true," said the Queen, with a look of great terror; "I had forgotten. Avaunt, the very thought! Pray fast banish it my poor, poor brother!" and she kissed his brow.
I kicked the brute out of doors this morning, on finding a letter from my dear one lying in my plate. "Avaunt, aroint thee, foul fiend!" I cried. "Thou art the veritable poodle in whose skin Mephistopheles hides when bent on direst mischief. I will set the sign of the cross upon my threshold, and thou shalt enter no more."
"No," said Fitz-Johnes fiercely; "I won't hear of it; I'll perish at the stake first. But if you really don't mind lending me a sovereign until to-morrow " I said I should be most happy; and forthwith produced the coin, which Fitz-Johnes, having received it, flung disdainfully down upon the table with the exclamation: "There, caitiff, is the lucre. Now, avaunt! begone!
If my soul had been possessed by ambition alone, I might possibly have been a greater man than I was; but I should not have been more virtuous, nor have gained the title I preferred to that of conqueror of Judaea and Emperor of Rome, in being called the delight of humankind. Guise. Avaunt! thou fiend. I abhor thy sight.
One was not frightened; one just got a battering-ram, and forced a passage through. He would tell her soon, but not out here. Not just yet. "You are forgetting our compact. I'm surprised at you, Hal. I call it a slight on the sunshine." "Why, so it is! ... Avaunt, and leave my mind, Holloway! This day belongs to the spring."
"Avaunt, thou devil's brood!" cried the student Anselmus, full of fury; "it was thou alone and thy hellish arts that brought me to the sin which I must now expiate. But I bear it all patiently; for only here can I be, where the kind Serpentina encircles me with love and consolation. Hear it, thou beldam, and despair!
It might have been expected that the old gentleman would have been penetrated to the heart by the delicacy and condescension of this appeal, and that he would at least have returned a courteous and suitable reply. What, then, was the shock which Mrs Nickleby received, when, accosting HER in the most unmistakable manner, he replied in a loud and sonourous voice: 'Avaunt! Cat!
And the earl Douglas said to sir Henry Percy: 'Sir, I shall bear this token of your prowess into Scotland and shall set it on high on my castle of Dalkeith, that it may be seen far off, 'Sir, quoth sir Henry, 'ye may be sure ye shall not pass the bounds of this country till ye be met withal in such wise that ye shall make none avaunt thereof, 'Well, sir, quoth the earl Douglas, 'come this night to my lodging and seek for your pennon: I shall set it before my lodging and see if ye will come to take it away. So then it was late, and the Scots withdrew to their lodgings and refreshed them with such as they had.
Their necromantic forms in vain Haunt us on the tented plain; We bid these spectre shapes avaunt, Ashtaroth and Termagaunt.
As if with a fearful curiosity, the moon, through a rent in the clouds, cast a beam upon Sintram's companion, and made clear to the shuddering youth that the little Master stood, by him. "Avaunt!" cried he, "I will listen no more to thy evil stories about the knight Paris: they would end by driving me quite mad." "My stories about Paris are not needed for that!" grinned the little Master.
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