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But he sullenly avoided her; once seeing her in the road, he leaped his horse over the hedge rather than pass her. For the diamond locket looked so like a price as if she valued a glittering bauble far above true love. She walked by his side, and said: "George, I have put the locket in the arbour, with a letter for you.
Pickering bought them some fairings, and I did give every one of them a bauble, which was the little globes of glass with things hanging in them, which pleased the ladies very well. After that home with them in their coach, and there was called up to my Lady, and she would have me stay to talk with her, which I did I think a full hour. And the poor lady did with so much innocency tell me how Mrs.
I dare not slay him, he will not to school, And still he shakes his bauble in my face. 'I seize him, Lord, and bring him to thy door; Bound on thine altar-threshold him I lay. He weepeth; did I heed, he would implore; And still he cries ALACK and WELL-A-DAY!
Her black eyes gleamed with triumph at the sight of the bauble. Greedily she grasped it and held it up between her and the light, turning it about and watching the red rays gleaming through the stones.
She started at the noise, and then smiled, in scorn of her momentary fear, as she took up the ring that had occasioned the sound, a ring plain and solid, like those used as signets in the Middle Ages, with a large dull opal in the centre. What secret could that bauble have in common with its ghastly companions in Death's crypt?
With hands that trembled with his eagerness to fix the bauble in his hat, Barnaby was adjusting it as he best could, and hurriedly replying to the tears and entreaties of his mother, when two gentlemen passed on the opposite side of the way. Observing them, and seeing how Barnaby was occupied, they stopped, whispered together for an instant, turned back, and came over to them.
The tents of the tawdry shows that had tempted the crowds with vulgar indecencies, and the booths that had sheltered the petty games of chance where loud-voiced criers had persuaded the multitude with the hope of winning a worthless bauble or a tinsel toy, were being cleared away from the borders of the plaza, the beauty of which their presence had marred.
Those who would support the king's honour and dignity must desire to see you removed from his counsels." "I am ready to take thy place, lord cardinal," said Will Sommers; "and will exchange my bauble for thy chancellor's mace, and my fool's cap for thy cardinal's hat." "Peace!" thundered the king. "Stand not between me and the object of my wrath.
Even John Arnold, whom I confided in, and favoured more than any, has proved an execrable villain; and shall meet his reward for it. 'As to that college novice, Williams, I need not bid you take care he sees not this painted bauble: for I have ordered Mr.
What is the vanity of a triumph among the gondoliers, or the bauble of a mimic oar and chain, to one of my years and condition?" "Thou forgettest that the oar and chain are gold?" "Excellent gentlemen, gold cannot heal the wounds which misery has left on a heavy heart.
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