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"Then why do I feel so sick, even to hear of it?" "Because you ha'n't got no stomach," said the boy, contemptuously. "Your courage is skin-deep, I'm thinking. However, I'm glad you feel for our Squire, about the bullet; so now I hope you will wed with him, and sack Squire Neville. Then you and I shall be kind o' kin: Squire Gaunt's feyther was my feyther. That makes you stare, Mistress.
"He don't take enough account o' honor, an' the like, but it's for tryin' till keep his soul right," he used to say, excusingly, to Dode. "That's it! He minds me o' th' man that lived up on th' pillar, prayin'." "The Lord never made people to live on pillars," Dode said. The old man looked askance at Gaunt's worn face, as he trotted along beside him, thinking how pure it was.
With that object Gregory XI, though eager to return to Rome, tarried in the Rhone valley. Two of his legates appeared in Champagne at the time of John of Gaunt's abortive expedition. From that moment offers of peace were constantly pressed on both sides. Lancaster was at Calais, and Anjou was not far off at Saint-Omer, when definite proposals were exchanged.
Derek turned and walked out of the little wood. But when he had put a field between him and the sound of Gaunt's bill-hook, he lay down and buried his face in the grass, chewing at its green blades, scarce dry of dew, and with its juicy sweetness tasting the full of bitterness.
"And yet he was more violent than ever raved against you like a maniac." "But why?" "It was just after he had received another of Jasper Gaunt's letters, here it is!" and, stooping, Mr. Smivvle picked up a crumpled paper that had lain among the ashes, and smoothing it out, tendered it to Barnabas.
By the time that his preparations were completed, Nicholls had got the wreckage cut completely adrift from the hull, and the two men now proceeded to carefully coil down upon Gaunt's raft the whole of the warp; the grapnel being bent on to one end, whilst Nicholls, who was going to remain on the wreckage, retained possession of the other.
"The king's mother has surrounded him with a number of men who, being for the most part of obscure birth, have no sympathy with John of Gaunt's faction, and oppose it in every way.
The Complaint of the Black Knight, during John of Gaunt's courtship with Blanch is supposed to be written on account of the duke of Lancaster's marriage. The House of Fame; from this poem Mr. Pope acknowledges he took the hint of his Temple of Fame. The book of Blaunch the Duchess, commonly called the Dreme of Chaucer, was written upon the death of that lady. The Life of St.
"Yes, for a minute, after supper." She then left him, and went to Mrs. Gaunt's room, and sat crouching before the fire, all hate and bitterness. What? he had left the wife he loved, and yet had not turned to her! She sat there, waiting for Mrs. Gaunt, and nursing her vindictive fury, two mortal hours. At last, just before supper, Mrs.
"I do not know that they will set us free, dear boy; it may not be God's will," was the substance of Gaunt's reply to this oft-repeated question; at which the little fellow would look at his father in surprise and retort: "But, father, you used to tell me that God is always pleased to hear and answer the prayers of little children!"
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