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Indeed it is doubtful whether since hundreds of years ago the old Crusader and his fair lady, whose ashes were beneath their feet, stood where they stood for this same purpose of marriage, clad in coat of mail and gleaming silk, a nobler-looking couple had been wed in that ancient fane.
'I don't think I have provided we can give him an education such as I failed to make proper use of, or Annaple might be luxuriating at Pera at this moment. 'Well! said May, pausing as she looked up the vista of trees at the great house; 'I can't bear it to go out of the old name. 'Names may be taken! 'You don't mean that there's any chance of Oh! not that horrid Mr. Fane? 'Certainly not.
It made me quite unhappy to see you look so sour and melancholy; one would have thought that I was some bore, Salvinski at, least, by the way you spoke to me. Well, mind you come; it is a promise, good. I must go and say just one word to the lovely little Saxon girl; by-the-bye, Grey, one word before I am off. List to a friend; you are on the wrong scent about Miss Fane; St.
A few white vapours hung upon the summit of Whalley Nab, but the warm rays tinging them with gold, and tipping with fire the tree-tops that pierced through them, augured their speedy dispersion. So beautiful, so tranquil, looked the old monastic fane, that none would have deemed its midnight rest had been broken by the impious rites of a foul troop.
"Dear Miss Erroll," she said blandly, "I spoke as I did only to assure you that I, also, disregard such malicious gossip " "But if you disregard it, Mrs. Fane, why do you repeat it?" "Merely to emphasise to you my disbelief in it, child," returned Rosamund. "Do you understand?" "Y-es; thank you. Yet, I should never have heard of it at all if you had not told me."
Just as he arrived there, the vesper hymn arose from the adjoining fane, and its solemn strains somewhat soothed his troubled spirit. But they died away; and as the jester came not, Richmond grew impatient, and began to fear he had been duped by his informant.
Fane thought himself a good-looking fellow, and he regarded his figure with pleasure, as it was set off by the suit of fine gray check that he wore habitually; but he thought Gregory's educational advantages told in his face.
I will be no traitor to thy sweet authority; and verily, I will not believe that thy influence o'er our hearts is, at this moment, less potent than when we worshipped in thy glittering fane of Ephesus, or trembled at the dark horrors of thine Arician rites. Then, hail to thee, Queen of the Night! Hail to thee, Diana, Triformis; Cynthia, Orthia, Taurica; ever mighty, ever lovely, ever holy!
Appalled, yet partly restored to herself by this confused and horrible din, Alizon stood still and kept fast hold of Dorothy, who, seemingly under a stronger influence than herself, was drawn towards the eastern end of the fane, where a fire appeared to be blazing, a strong ruddy glare being cast upon the broken roof of the choir, and the mouldering arches around it.
I positively dote on those little bits of stores on the jewelers' bridge." "Well, well, that's quite enough to begin with." "Now that we're going to have some time to spare, we mean to go sight-seeing like other folks." "How I wish, dear Mrs. Hawthorne, that I were not such a busy man! But" Mr. Foss had a look of bright inspiration "should I on that account be dejected? Here is Mr. Fane "
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