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"No matter where I dwell. I am but a simple butcher, and to Nottingham am I going, my flesh to sell. 'Tis Fair week, and my beef and mutton should fetch a fair penny," and he laughed loudly at his jest. "But whence come you?" "A yeoman am I, from Lockesley town. Men call me Robin Hood." "The saints forefend that you should treat me ill!" said the butcher in terror.
His deep voice rang, overbearing the stumbling accents of the clergyman. "A sign! A sign from on High! O God, thou hast spoken through thy servant to forefend a sore offense. Listen, ye people. This woman "
Ay, ay! thou thinkest that love is a strange word on a craftsman's lips, but 'cold flint hides hot fire. I would not have been thy rival, Heaven forefend! hadst thou still cherished a hope, or if thou now wilt forbid my aspiring; but if thou wilt not say me nay, I will try my chance in delivering a pure soul from a crafty wooer."
Not that I am worse, understand me, than under a temporary cloud, and the blessing of heaven has endowed me with a magnificent constitution. Heaven forefend that I should groan for myself, or you for me! But digest what you have learnt, Richie; press nothing on the squire; be guided by the advice of that esteemed and admirable woman, your aunt Dorothy.
"Good words are better than bad ones for a good man," mused Torquatus, wagging his head sententiously, and darting at his companion a comprehensive glance, behind which lurked a grim smile. "If women could ever learn as much, they might govern us the more readily which the gods forefend! as I doubt not they will." Then the company halted.
"Saints forefend!" exclaimed Isabel; "can you so wrong my honest meaning? O George! can you conceive that your wife Warwick's daughter harbours the thought of murder? No! surely the career before you seems plain and spotless! Can Edward reign?
"Now Heaven forefend! A fine fool you would make of yourself." They broke their fast, settled their score, and said farewell. Then it was they found that Marion had not exaggerated the "custom of the country." The three principal women took and kissed them right heartily, and they kissed the three principal women.
"Asbury Fuller?" and he deftly fastened beneath his nose an elegant false moustache with waxed ends. With his hands before his eyes as if to forefend his view from some dreadful apparition, the man in the corner sank upon his knees, gibbering, "William Leadbury, come back from the dead!" "William Leadbury, alive and well, here to claim his own from you, Anderson Walkley, outlaw and felon.
Everything to forefend against a day of stress or trial had been done, even to instilling courage into youthful hearts. "There's only one thing further that comes to mind," said the practical man, as they rode homeward, "and that is to face an unexpected storm.
Ay, ay! thou thinkest that love is a strange word on a craftsman's lips, but 'cold flint hides hot fire. I would not have been thy rival, Heaven forefend! hadst thou still cherished a hope, or if thou now wilt forbid my aspiring; but if thou wilt not say me nay, I will try my chance in delivering a pure soul from a crafty wooer."
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