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"Sure I am that if my little master Squire Loring had the handling of it, every woman on this island would be free ere another day had passed." "I doubt it not," said Simon. "He is one who makes an idol of woman, after the manner of those crazy knight errants. But Sir Robert is a true soldier and hath only his purpose in view."
The shepherd boy did not return to the hilly country called Sunnach that night, nor the next night, nor for many a long day and night. He remained in the town of the Seven Sisters, running on errants, driving carts, doing such odd jobs as came his way, and all because he wanted to gaze upon the daughter of the Keeper of the Key.
"The errants are many," said Sancho. "Many," replied Don Quixote, "but few they who deserve the name of knights."
By the time Europe had wearied of the sword, the fatality attending high living, large slave-tilled estates, the love of official society, and the defective education of the young men of tide-water Virginia and Maryland, produced a new class of native-born errants and broken profligates at Washington, and many a life whose memories began with a coach-and-four and a park of deer ended them between the coverlets of a poor-house bed.
No denser grows the mystery around my birth; and if knight errants yet live, rescuing maids, or he is a wandering god, and here is Arcadia, why should that make me grieve? It is true that he is handsome and yet what of that? most men are handsome in the eyes of maids. But he appears the paragon of men. Is he indeed not all a man should be?
"I hope some day to win my marshal's baton, and methinks that if you have as good fortune as I have had, and escape being cut off by bullet or sabre, you, too, may look forward to gaining such a distinction. You see all these young men around us have joined rather in the spirit of knight errants than that of soldiers.
Sets a heap of store by my judgment." "Sets more store by your laigs," said Old Man Bogle. "They kin run errants, anyhow." Pliny hastened across the square, and in careful imitation of Scattergood said, "Evening Scattergood." "Evening Pliny. Flow of language good as usual to-night? Didn't meet with no trouble sayin' what you had to say?" "Not a mite, Scattergood." "Come through Bailey to-day?"
Elsley shrugged his shoulders, and said, smiling, as if it were a fine thing to say "Really, my dear, all men are not knight errants enough to endanger their necks for a bit of weed; and I cannot say that such rough tours de force are at all to my fancy." Lucia turned away: but she was vexed. Campbell could see that a strange fancy for the plant had seized her.
None of the characters is native. All are Turks, Arabs, knights, errants, ambassadors, dukes, warriors in armor provided with magic arms and with balsams like the famous one of Fierabras, good Castilians and bad strangers. All the characters are antipodal to Philippine realities and with the semblance of the real and true being from unknown lands and prodigious races.
"I'm not driving anybody, that I know of," answered Rose, with heightened color, but with no loss of her habitual self-command. "Then, when he graduated from errants," went on the crafty old man, who knew that when breakfast ceased, churning must begin, "Steve used to get seventy-five cents a day helpin' clear up the river if you can call this here silv'ry streamlet a river.
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