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Rullecour, however, had also promised the post to a reckless young officer, the Comte de Tournay, of the House of Vaufontaine, who, under the assumed name of Yves Savary dit Detricand, marched with him. Rullecour answered Delagarde churlishly, and would say nothing till the town was taken the ecrivain must wait.
"You must go now, young gentleman," said he, almost churlishly. The quick lover's sense in Lionel divined why the blind Avas drawn, and the dismissal so abruptly given. "Give me your address," said Waife; "I will write about that paper. Don't now stay longer pray pray." "Do not fear, sir. I am not lingering here with the wish to see her!" Waife looked down.
"You are glad to get into the blessed sunshine; but where shall we rest at night, my poor Charlot?" "And now, mistress," said the smith, not churlishly, for it was not in his nature, but bluntly, as one who is desirous to finish a disagreeable employment, "which way lies your road?" Louise looked on the ground and was silent.
The owners of the estate were less churlishly selfish than their prototypes in our own country, in that they permitted the public, which is to say their own workmen and families, to go freely anywhere in the family residence and its patio, except into the dwelling-rooms proper. When darkness came on we sat in the piazza garden overlooking the mule-yard.
She is very fond of Jessie Wiles, and she has shown great kindness to Will. In fact, a sweeter, more benevolent, sympathizing nature than that of Cecilia Travers does not exist. She has great influence with her father, and through her you may win him." "I particularly dislike having anything to do with women," said Kenelm, churlishly. "Parsons are accustomed to get round them.
If at any time they shewed unto the savages the excessive price which they tooke, these villaines would answere them roughly and churlishly: If thou make so great account of thy marchandise, eat it, and we will eat our fish: then fell they out a laughing, and mocked us with open throat." The spring wore away, and no relief appeared.
Rapt in this gloomy self-commune, he heard not the light step that sought his side, till a tender arm was thrown around him, and a face in which sweet temper and pure thought had preserved to matronly beauty all the bloom of youth, looked up smilingly to his own. "My lord, my Richard," said the countess, "why didst thou steal so churlishly from me?
"In mortal shape we have come down, and at a hundred houses asked for lodging and rest. For answer a hundred doors were shut and locked against us. You alone, the poorest of all, have received us gladly and given us of your best. Now it is for us to punish these impious people who treat strangers so churlishly, but you two shall be spared.
The youth who comes fully under its control sees no darkness ahead. He forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world, and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty. The boy Bach copied whole books of musical studies by moonlight, for want of a candle churlishly denied.
The feudal baronage and the feudal knighthood, the roots of our primitive Constitution, were early transplanted into that soil, and grew and flourished there. Magna Charta, if it did not give us originally the House of Commons, gave us at least a House of Commons of weight and consequence. But your ancestors did not churlishly sit down alone to the feast of Magna Charta.
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