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Apparently the experiment passed off well; Shalem has every reason to feel pleased with himself and well-disposed towards Gorla. By the way," added Yeovil, "talking of Gorla, I'm going down to Torywood one day next week." "To Torywood?" exclaimed Cicely. The tone of her exclamation gave the impression that the announcement was not very acceptable to her.
"I think it would be silly, and silliness doesn't appeal to me. That is why I foresee storms on the domestic horizon. After all, Gorla has her career to think of. Do you know," she added, with a change of tone, "I rather wish you would fall in love with Gorla; it would make me horribly jealous, and a little jealousy is such a good tonic for any woman who knows how to dress well.
'If you have vowed, then must you keep your vow, answered Gorla. 'But better had it been if you had first asked your father's leave before you made it. Yet, since it is so, your mother will bake you a cake for you to carry with you on your journey. Who can tell how long it may be? So the mother arose and baked not one cake but two, a big one and a little one. 'Choose, my son, said she.
He won't understand, for instance, how we can be enthusiastic and excited over Gorla Mustelford's debut, and things of that sort; he'll think we are a set of callous revellers, fiddling while Rome is burning." "In this case," said Ronnie, "Rome isn't burning, it's burnt. All that remains to be done is to rebuild it when possible."
"I would take things tragically if I saw the good of it," he said; "as matters stand it's too late in the day and too early to be anything but philosophical about what one can't help. For the present we've just got to make the best of things. Besides, you can't very well turn down Gorla at the last moment." "I'm not going to turn down Gorla, or anybody," said Cicely with decision.
'Not even for one day could you keep true! Well, you shall have your reward at once, that others may take warning from you. And waving his wand he touched with it the chest of the youth, who became a pillar of stone. Now Gorla of the Flocks and his wife were full of grief that they had lost a son as well as a daughter, for no tidings had come to them of Ardan their eldest born.
And his father answered: 'Go, then, and take our blessing with you. So the wife of Gorla of the Flocks baked two cakes, one large and one small; and Covan took the small one, and started on his quest. In the wood he felt hungry, for he had walked far, and he sat down to eat.
'If, for the space of a year, you can bring them back to me each evening before the sun sets, I will make you payment that will satisfy your soul. But here the girl looked up and answered quickly: 'Ill will come of it if he listens to your offer. 'Counsel unsought is worth nothing, replied, rudely, Ardan son of Gorla.
Huge posters outside the Caravansery Theatre of Varieties announced the first performance of the uniquely interesting Suggestion Dances, interpreted by the Hon. Gorla Mustelford.
At the door of their stable the maiden stood awaiting them, and saying nought to their herd, she sat down and began to milk. But it was not milk that flowed into her pail; instead it was filled with a thin stream of water, and as she rose up from the last cow the old man appeared outside. 'Faithless one, you have betrayed your trust! he said to Ardan son of Gorla.
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