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Now that Fa Fai had attained an age when she could fittingly be sought in marriage the contingency might occur at any time, and the problem confronting her father's decision was this: owing to her incomparable perfection Fa Fai must be accounted one of Wong Ts'in's chief possessions, the other undoubtedly being his secret process of simulating the lustrous effect of pure gold embellishment on china by the application of a much less expensive substitute.
She feared another robbery; but Jack's fresh face looked so innocent that she could not resist him, and so she bade him come in, and again hid him away in the wardrobe. By-and-by the Giant came home, and as soon as he had crossed the threshold he roared out: 'Fe, fa, fi-fo-fum, I smell the breath of an Englishman. Let him be alive or let him be dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
Parsons, by taking further liberty with the original, has not surpassed it: "And she to me: The mightiest of all woes Is in the midst of misery to be cursed With bliss remembered." "Ond' ella, appresso d'un pio sospiro, Gli occhi drizzo ver me con quel sembiante, Che madre fa sopra figlinol deliro." And, finally, the beginning of the eighth canto of the "Purgatorio":
"If I find I can't clear myself, I am going back there and shoot him down like a dog just as he shot his poor old fa father." His body shook with the racking sobs that choked him. "You must not do that," she implored, terrified. "Then they would surely hang you." "Ah, but I wouldn't mind it then," he said between his teeth. "David, you must let mother talk with you. She can tell you what to do.
"That's mair than I can tell, Bawbie; but I'll rin doon for the mistress, an' she'll look efter the shop till we gae oot the Sands an' see if we can fa' in wi' him," said Dauvid. Dauvid gaed awa' for Mistress Kenawee, an' I ran up the stair to the garret to throw on my bonnet, takin' Sandy's claes wi' me.
I asked, and she nodded her head, without replying. "We shall have supper directly," I continued. "Meanwhile, I daresay you would like to arrange your dress a little?" She answered with a mica, a word which she employed just as frequently as Che mi fa, but I went on: "It is always pleasant after a journey."
I have taught him four-and-twenty performances, the least of which is worth going thirty leagues to see. He can dance the zaraband and the chacona better than their inventor; he tosses off a pint of wine without spilling a drop; he intones a sol, fa, mi, re, as well as any sacristan.
Should the President attempt treason the Li Fa Yuan may institute judicial proceedings in the Supreme Court against him by a three-fourths or more vote of a four-fifths attendance of the total membership. Regarding the clauses from 1 to 8 and articles 20, 25, 28, 55 and 27, the approval of a majority of more than half of the attending members will be required to make a decision. Art. 32.
"When I think on the world's pelf May the shame fa' and the blethrie o 't." Burden of old Scottish Song.
The brigadier pulled his cap off his hair, which was soaked with perspiration, ejaculated, 'Fa! ... squatted down on the edge of a chair ... bowed his head gloomily....
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