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'Pray, sir, is there any song current in this part of the world respecting a daughter of the King of the Isle of Man eloping with a Scottish knight? 'I am the worst person in the world to consult upon legendary antiquities, answered Glossin. 'I could sing such a ballad, said Bertram, 'from one end to another when I was a boy.
She started out on her great adventure with a strange self-assurance as though loving Martin had given her the wisdom of all the ages. Turning down the street towards the Strand she found almost at once a taxi-cab drawn up, as though it had been waiting there especially for her like an eloping coach in a romantic tale.
The facts were not fully known, but it was generally understood that his fiancee had exercised Woman's prerogative and changed her mind. Also, that she had done this on the actual wedding-day, causing annoyance to all, and had clinched the matter by eloping to Jersey City with the prospective bridegroom's own coachman. Whatever the facts, there was no doubt about their result.
"There are other rhymes connected with these early recollections," continued the young man : "Pray, sir, is there any song current in this part of the world respecting a daughter of the King of the Isle of Man eloping with a Scottish knight?" "I am the worst person in the world to consult upon legendary antiquities," answered Glossin.
"Sir B. Never fear, he does not love well enough to be quick sighted; for just now he taxed me with eloping with his sister. "Mar. Well, we had now best join the company. "Cler. So, now who can ever have faith in woman! D d deceitful wanton! why did she not fairly tell me that she was weary of my addresses? that, woman-like, her mind was changed, and another fool succeeded. "Enter LADY SNEERWELL.
Shortly after crossing the river, a sign-board pointed the way to Gretna Green, that old-time haven of eloping lovers, who used to cross the Solway just as the tide began to rise, and before it subsided there was little for the paternal ancestors to do but forgive and make the best of it.
When the young Pawnee perceived that there were difficulties in the way, which would ever be insuperable while he remained a prisoner among the Tetons, he immediately conceived the idea of eloping to his own people, and embraced the first opportunity to apprise Ni-ar-gua of his design. The proposition met with a hearty response on her part.
It won't take five minutes to explain Mr. Goodfellow here, just as easily " "And as for me," struck in Miss Belcher, "I'm an old madwoman, with more money than I know what to do with. And as for Jack Rogers, I'm eloping with him to a coral island." Mr. Rogers checked himself on the edge of a guffaw. "But, I say, Lydia, you're not serious about this?" he asked. "I don't know, Jack.
Late that evening I had received an anonymous telephone call from a man telling me that if I wanted to save my sister a good deal of unpleasant gossip, I'd better meet that midnight train as Warren was eloping on it with some other woman. But the man who gave me this information cut off before telling me the name of the woman. I didn't know it then and I don't know it now.
The last letter was always convincing; it breathed Martin's strong, joyous spirit from every line, and drove away all fears. It had come promptly in answer to hers, and had been sent under cover to Mrs. Munn, for fear Ella Anne's curiosity might again be aroused. Martin evidently retained his old rollicking spirits, for he fell in most cordially with the plan for eloping.
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