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I muckle fear his gifts will get the heels of his grace. He has ower muckle human wit and learning, and thinks as muckle about the form of the bicker as he does about the healsomeness of the food he maun broider the marriage-garment with lace and passments, or it's no gude eneugh for him.
"Now you are Bracelet-Bound, my son. So young!" Roy felt a throb of pride. It was clearly a fine thing to be. "Must I give a 'broidered bodice'?" "I will broider a bodice the most beautiful; and you shall give it. Remember, Roy, it is not a little matter. It is for always." "Even when I'm a grown-up man?" "Yes, even then. If she shall ask from you any service, you must not refuse ever."
Verily not, said Habundia, nor why thou art not clad in the fair green gown which thou didst broider; for whiles I have seen the witch flaunting it on the wooden ugly body of her, and thou wouldst not wear it after she had cursed it with her foulness. Is it not so? Yea, it is even so, said Birdalone; dost thou love me the less therefor?
"She is my daughter," answered the pedlar, rather proudly. "But I am sure the woman who can broider like this, is clever enough to make a row of harebells and ferns!" "Clever enough, oh yes! But she could not do it." "`Clever enough, but `could not do it' old man, I cannot understand thee." "Lady, she would account it sin to imitate created things."
I'll tell massa we make more money if I gits anoder slabe-gal, an' he'll agree, for he agrees to eberyt'ing ob dat sort! Den he'll forgit all about it, an' den you an' Sally kin go about town what you like." "But I fear, Mrs Lilly, that I won't be able to help you to make more money," objected Hester timidly. "Oh yes, you will. You'll larn to 'broider de red an' blue slippers.
"Ha! home, then! home! and weave the charmed woof of the banner, broider it with zimmes and with gold worthy the standard of a king; for I tell thee, that where that banner is planted, shall Edith clasp with bridal arms her adored. And the hwata thou hast read by the bautastein, and in the temple of the Briton's revengeful gods, shall be fulfilled."
There came to them none of those happy little adventures, bright gleams from the unexpected, which we broider and magnify as the years go by, and store at last in our soul as the one inexhaustible treasure acquired by the smiling memory of life.
"I thought she was affianced to a gentleman who certainly is not, at least so I have heard, either M. de Guiche or M. de Wardes?" "Very possibly, madame." The young queen took up a piece of tapestry, and began to broider with an affectation of tranquillity her trembling fingers contradicted. "What were you saying about Venus and Mars?" pursued the queen-mother. "Is there a Mars also?"
"Ha! home, then! home! and weave the charmed woof of the banner, broider it with zimmes and with gold worthy the standard of a king; for I tell thee, that where that banner is planted, shall Edith clasp with bridal arms her adored. And the hwata thou hast read by the bautastein, and in the temple of the Briton's revengeful gods, shall be fulfilled."
And the closes de mens! Madre de Dios! The beautiful velvet and silk closes, broider by silver and gold! And the saddles so fine! But you think I never go to tell you the story. "One summer we are more gay than ever. So many caballeros love my señoritas, but I think they never love any one, and never go to marry at all. For a month we have the house fule; meriendas peek-neeks, you call, no?
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