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Updated: May 15, 2025
"For a good cause, ay," said Humfrey in his stolid way. "And what can be a better cause than that of the fairest of captive queens?" exclaimed Antony, hotly. "I would not be a traitor," returned Humfrey, as he lay on his back, looking up through the chequerwork of the branches of the trees towards the sky.
O strength of loving will! These are the holy balsam drops that woeful wars distil. The wild history of Ireland contains many a frightful tale, but also many an action of the noblest order; and the short sketch given by Maria Edgeworth of her ancestry, presents such a chequerwork of the gold and the lead that it is almost impossible to separate them.
For example, thou paintest two coats of mantles, one white the other red; thou must deal differently with them in shading. There is light and shadow on all things, wherever the surface foldeth or bendeth away from the eye. If this were not so, everything would look flat, and then one could distinguish nothing save only a chequerwork of colours.
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