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He bid me seek this house, for that I should likely find him here. If he be not so, I pray you direct me where he may be found; for I have no mind to return with my task unfulfilled, nor yet to carry about with me these same papers an hour longer than need be." "Heaven forfend!" ejaculated the custodian of the place with unfeigned anxiety. "Father Urban in peril! Father Urban sore hurt!
"No, Heaven forfend!" replied the Earl, cordially, and with a look at once of pity and admiration; "for thou art one of the few, in this court of simulators, sincere and true; and it pleases thee to serve the Divine Power in thy way, as it pleases me to serve Him in mine." "Thine, Harold?" said the Queen, shaking her head, but with a look of some human pride and fondness in her fair face.
"A life, my lord!" "Ah, the blessed saints forfend I feared so!" gasped Roger. But now the witch turned and looked on Roger, and he incontinent crossed himself and fell thenceforth to mumbling prayers beneath his breath. "Lord Duke, for that I am but a woman poor and helpless, now would I beseech thine aid for " "Nay, tell me first, whence come ye?" "From Barham Broom, messire.
And what another says: Full many an one, whose ankle-rings are dumb, her girdle sounds; So this one is content and that a tale of need must tell. Thou'dst have me, foolwise, in her charms forget thee. God forfend I, that a true believer am, should turn an infidel! No, by a whisker that makes mock of all her curls, I swear, Nor maid nor strumpet from thy side shall me by guile compel!
What these signs and portents signified he had no idea; perhaps, he mused, they mean my own death, which is of no consequence; or perhaps which may the Fates forfend some disaster to an absent friend or even to the State. But so far and twelve days had passed since he had seen these strange manifestations he had received no news which confirmed his fears.
"Oh, I find it rather monotonous in the winter; but in the summer it is fine. Then I wander about the summer resorts and give exhibitions." "You will pardon my niece," interpolated the old gentleman, coughing a bit nervously. "If she annoys you " "Uncle!" reproachfully. "Heaven forfend!" I exclaimed eagerly.
Yet he must remain on 'change, whatever happened, potentially if not actively; and so in his quick mental searchings he hit upon the idea that in order to forfend against the event of his being put into prison or thrown into bankruptcy, or both, he ought to form a subsidiary silent partnership with some man who was or would be well liked on 'change, and whom he could use as a cat's-paw and a dummy.
I will give you letters to my cousin and your father saying how well you have borne yourselves, and how mightily Sir Roger Williams was pleased with you. In the spring you can rejoin, unless indeed the Spaniards should land in England, which Heaven forfend, in which case you will probably prefer to ride under my cousin's banner at home." The boys gladly accepted Francis Vere's proposal.
Quoth she, "Allah deliver him from treason! the Heavens forfend and forbid that the 'Trusty' should be a traitor!" Then said he, "When this boy shall grow up and reach man's estate and say to thee, 'Who is my father? say to him, 'Thou art the son of the Emir Khalid, Governor and Chief of Police." And she answered, "I hear and I obey."
At dawn, Harold woke from uneasy and broken slumbers, and his eyes fell upon the face of Hilda, large, and fair, and unutterably calm, as the face of Egyptian sphinx. "Have thy dreams been prophetic, son of Godwin?" said the Vala. "Our Lord forfend," replied the Earl, with unusual devoutness. "Tell them, and let me read the rede; sense dwells in the voices of the night."
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