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Nay rather; there where the youngling that longeth to be bold Sits gazing through the hall-reek and sees across the board A vision of the reaping of the harvest of the sword, There shall Thiodolf be sitting; e'en there shall the youngling be That once in the ring of the hazels gave up his life to thee." She laughed as he ended, and her voice was sweet, but bitter was her laugh.
"E'en in thy desert what is like to thee? Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy wastes More rich than other lands' fertility; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin grand."
"And can it be thou art such craven, Robert, as to repent a Comyn's death a Comyn, and a traitor e'en though his dastard blood be on thy hand? bah! An' such deeds weigh heavy on thy mind, a friar's cowl were better suited to thy brow than Scotland's diadem."
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth When thought is speech and speech is truth SCOTT 'Tis with him e'en standing water. Between man and boy SHAKESPEARE Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet LONGFELLOW Have you any remarks to make on the ablution of boys and girls?
"And if I do not choose to pay?" asked Haward, with a smile. "Then you must e'en choose to fight," was the cool reply. "And as I observe that you wear neither sword nor pistols, and as jack boots and a fine tight-buttoned riding coat are not the easiest clothes to wrestle in, it appears just possible that I might win the cause." "And when you've thrown me, what then?"
"'The growing garlic, if it be a lover of Italy," cried Helene, still more spitefully. "This is enough and to spare of chivalry, besides which Hugo hath his lessons to learn for Friar Laurence, or else he will repent it on the morrow. Come, sweetheart, let us be going. I will e'en convoy thee home."
This vanquishes men and immortals; But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of steel. Once and once only could love prevail on the ruler of shadows, And on the threshold, e'en then, sternly his gift he recalled.
"But ye maybe paid it in the presence of somebody. I want but a talis qualis evidence, Stephen. I would go ower-strictly to work with no poor man." Stephen. Troth, Sir John, there was naebody in the room but Dougal MacCallum, the butler. But, as your honour kens, he has e'en followed his auld master. "Very unlucky again, Stephen," said Sir John, without altering his voice a single note.
"Quite impossible, Mr. MacRea! I have to think of the servants." "Eh? You have servants!" "Four or five," said I. His eyes seemed ready to start out of his head. "I had opined by the way you opened the door with your own hand " He broke off, and exclaimed: "Four or five servants! It will be a grand practice of yours! Well, go your ways, Dr. Frampton I must e'en study to live up to you."
Here Lauretta made an end of her song, wherein, albeit attentively followed of all, she was diversely apprehended of divers persons, and there were those who would e'en understand, Milan-fashion, that a good hog was better than a handsome wench; but others were of a loftier and better and truer apprehension, whereof it booteth not to tell at this present.
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