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At half after three I rose, and gazed with deep emotion at the ancient towers of , "drest in earliest light," and beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning.
In which sleep I left her, and, having drest myself with all the expedition imaginable, singing, whistling, hurrying, attempting by every method to banish thought, I mounted my horse, which I had over-night ordered to be ready, and galloped away from that house where all my treasure was deposited.
Fitly named the Virgin, the Jungfrau gives her benediction to Interlaken, serenely smiling at the valley and at the town lying so quietly at her feet the Jungfrau crowned with snow, Interlaken drest in green! In the golden glory of the sun, in the silver shimmer of the moon, the Jungfrau beckons, the Jungfrau calls! "Come," she seems to say, "come nearer! Come up to the heights!
Then came viands delicately drest and choicest wines were proffered and the three serving-men, without more, quietly tended the tables.
'Tell me, cried Sir William sternly, 'have you ever seen your master and that fellow drest up in his cloaths in company together? 'Yes, please your honour, cried the butler, 'a thousand times: he was the man that always brought him his ladies. 'How, interrupted young Mr Thornhill, 'this to my face! 'Yes, replied the butler, 'or to any man's face.
He rose from his couch, and hastily drest himself. He then made his confession to the prelate, and desired that mass might be said, and the sacrament administered to him. This was done with great solemnity, and Egmont received the communion in the most devout manner, manifesting the greatest contrition for his sins.
She drest herself, frightened and tremulous at the mere idea of seeing again that dear house. A radiant sky spread out above over all the world, and the horse, in fits and starts of liveliness, sometimes broke into a gallop.
Garnish it with horseradish and sprigs of curled parsley, laid alternately round the edge of the dish; and send to table with it a small tureen of lobster sauce. Salmon trout may be drest in the same manner. Take out the bone and cut the flesh into slices. Season them with cayenne and salt.
Just as the methodist had finished his discourse, a beautiful young woman was ushered into the gaol. She was genteel and well drest, and did not in the least resemble those females whom Mr. Booth had hitherto seen.
It had hitherto been the opinion at Sydney, that the custom of losing the front tooth amongst the natives was confined to the men only, but a woman was lately seen who had lost the front tooth, and two women were met with who had the septum of the nose perforated; one of them was Barangaroo, who now visited the settlement daily, in company with her husband, and seemed to be pleased as though she thought herself drest when her nose was occasionally ornamented with a small bone or a bit of stick: she is very strait and exceeding well made; her features are good, and though she goes entirely naked, yet there is such an air of innocence about her that cloathing scarcely appears necessary.
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