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"Pont y Glyn bin the bridge of the glen of trouble." "And what is the name of this place?" "Pen y bont the head of the bridge." "What is your own name?" "Catherine Hughes." "How old are you?" "Fifteen after three twenties." "I have a mother three after four twenties; that is eight years older than yourself." "Can she see?" "Better than I she can read the smallest letters."
There is a bardic proverb in the Welsh: A fo Ben, bydded Bont: 'He who is Chief, let him be the bridge': Bran the Blessed said it, when he threw down his giant body over the gulf, so that the men of the Island of the Mighty might pass over into Ireland.
Don't you know that Grimsey was nearly all burned down last night?" Dave loosened his hold of his pole, which fell into the water with a splash. "Grimsey! bont down!" he exclaimed, and his lower jaw dropped and showed his yellow teeth, but only to recover himself directly and pick up the pole. "Yah!" he snarled; "what's the good o' saying such a word as that? He's a hidin' behind them reeds.
"If the devil himself isn't afraid of her and wants to fetch her, I'll pay for his post-horses. But the girl, the sick girl?" "Herr Belotti begs me to persuade de Bont to visit her again. Are you on friendly terms with the doctor?"
"Ay, lad, I carried it out mysen, just as Mr Marston come oop wi' a lot of his lads, and Farmer Tallington come from t'other way; and we saved all we could, and got out the beasts and horses, but t'owd plaace is bont out." "And where is mother?" "All reight along o' my missus, bless her; and when we see we could do no more, squire began about who done it." "Yes: go on."
The poor, helpless creature is now lying without any care, for her aunt, old Fraulein Van Hoogstraten, has driven Doctor de Bont from her bed because he is a Calvinist." "From the sick girl's bed?" "It's abominable enough, but the old lady is now ill herself." "Bravo, bravo!" cried the fencing-master, clapping his hands.
The poor, helpless creature is now lying without any care, for her aunt, old Fraulein Van Hoogstraten, has driven Doctor de Bont from her bed because he is a Calvinist." "From the sick girl's bed?" "It's abominable enough, but the old lady is now ill herself." "Bravo, bravo!" cried the fencing-master, clapping his hands.
The squire turned to stop Dick, but it was too late, for the lad had reached the wheelwright and laid his hand upon his shoulder. "Hicky," he said softly; "be a man!" "Ay, lad, I will," said the great fellow, starting up with his eyes wet with tears. "It isn't the bont plaace made me soft like that, but what's been said."
Wilhelm shook his head, and the Italian continued, "There are other doctors in Leyden, but Father Damianus says de Bont or Bontius, as they call him, is the most skilful and learned of them all, and as the old excellenza herself had an attack of illness about noon, and certainly won't leave her bed very speedily, the way is open, and Father Damianus says he'll go to Doctor Bontius himself if necessary.
"Why, didn't I see with my own eyes as roof weer all bont off the top o' stable, and doors gone." "Yes; but the stable caught fire from the stacks," said Dick. "Yah! how could it? Why, it's reight the other side o' the house." "Well, couldn't the sparks and flames of fire float over and set light to the thatch?" cried Dick. "Set fire to the thack!" said Dave. "Ah, well, I warn't theer!
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