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I have already bespoken an excellent room for you. Do you accept?" "Yes, and thank you for the way you have put the matter. But do you think they will arrest me when I get to New York?" "Probably not. But to help in forestalling that unpleasant possibility I will cable Washington that you are coming at once, of your own free will, and anxious to tell the whole story."
Suffice it for all third persons to know what Rosalind indeed has never known, and what I hope no reader will be fool enough to tell her that Orlando was for the moment hopelessly and besottedly faithless to his wife, and that my services had been bespoken in the very narrowest nick of time.
And for that I made him a free gift of the Steeps of Monte Morello in the vernacular and of some chapters of the Caprezio, which he had long gone seeking, he made me a sharer in his holy relics and gave me one of the teeth of the Holy Rood and somewhat of the sound of the bells of Solomon's Temple in a vial and the feather of the Angel Gabriel, whereof I have already bespoken you, and one of the pattens of St.
I have already bespoken him of you and he wisheth you all the weal in the world; and whenas you shall have done this, leave me do with him. Quoth the physician, 'That which thou counsellest liketh me well.
Portman, who was on a visit at the Deanery, and the Major walking home full of thought towards the George, where he had bespoken a bed. Sauntering slowly homewards, Major Pendennis reached the George presently, and found Mr.
Oh yes! he looks down on you as his child's governess! What's the use of loving him? There's another heiress bespoken for him no doubt." "No. His parents consent, and we have known one another's love for six years." "Oh, that's the way he bound you to keep his secret! He would sing another song as soon as he was out of this scrape." "You little know!" was all she said.
Arrived at the inn, where, it seemed, he had already bespoken the whole of the first floor, he led Virginia upstairs with the greatest deference, hat in hand, past the bowing landlord and all his array of scullions, maidservants, lacqueys, porters and cooks; and took no more notice of me than he had done of the horde of beggars at the door.
With a little wistful, puzzled look on her face, she answered "There is no word of binding promise, that it is possible for my lips to utter, nor no deed bespoken before its committal, by your request or command, that you may not consider, as wholly yours beforehand, for the confidence that you have deserved I should place in you, assures me, that you will ask nothing of me, which is not thoroughly consistent with my welfare and happiness."
The wedding day was set, but there were many things to be brought to pass before it should arrive. Graeme had to finish the task she had set for herself on the night, when Arthur had bespoken her love and care for a new sister. She had to reconcile herself fully to the thought of the marriage, and truly the task did not seem to her easier as time went on.
In a week she will come to my hand like a tame bird," was Edgar's thought as he watched her slender, graceful figure slowly crossing the lawn with that undulating step of her mother's nation. "In a week's time I shall have tamed her," he repeated with a difference; and he felt glad that he had bespoken Leam Dundas betimes, and that fate and fortune had made him her prospective proprietor.
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