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The priest had listened to him all through with the same subtle embarrassed look. 'This must have some cause, he said slowly, when Manisty ceased to speak. 'Surely? this change? I recall language so different forecasts so gloomy. 'Gracious! I can give you books-full of them, said Manisty, reddening, 'if you care to read them. I came out with a parti-pris I don't deny it.
That night there was a sort of entertainment given in my honor and having no clothing with me except the heavy suit of underwear; I had to borrow a suit from the Alcalde in order to be presentable. The women of that place were most gracious and the girls as pretty as pictures. The Alcalde's little daughter took an interest in me.
Let us pause here a moment while we are speaking of Harvey. I should be curious to know what any one of the courtiers of Charles I., bedecked in feathers, ribbons and laces, would have said to the valet who would have placed the excellent Harvey, with his insane invention, above his most gracious majesty, the lord and king of all Great Britain!
Nothing short of reverence could have dictated the movement of any noble mind that had to do with her. She was the Sister of Mercy, whom the whole country round about knew for the most righteous Desperiers of them all. The noble line was ending nobly in her pure and lofty and most gracious womanhood.
She sent her maid away and knelt before her altar for a long time. "The Saints will tell me what to do," she said. "The good Saints, who are always gracious, they will vouchsafe to me some thought which will instruct me if I remain long enough at prayer." She remained in prayer a long time.
Mac-Morlan, said Sir Robert, with a gracious flourish of welcome; 'this is no intrusion, sir; for, your situation as sheriff-substitute calling upon you to attend to the peace of the county, and you, doubtless, feeling yourself particularly called upon to protect Hazlewood House, you have an acknowledged and admitted and undeniable right, sir, to enter the house of the first gentleman in Scotland uninvited always presuming you to be called there by the duty of your office.
I can tell you that job made some folk shake for their office." "Weel, but, Laurie, ye maun befriend me this time, and get this wee bit sifflication slipped into his Majesty's ain most gracious hand. I promise you the contents will be most grateful to him."
"I heard the threat, my lord ... and have no fear," she said. "No fear of death?" "None, gracious lord. There is no yoke so heavy as a bond unhallowed. No death so cruel as the breaking of a heart." There was dead silence in the room now; only from a far distant rolls of ceaseless thunder sent their angry echo through the oppressive air.
"Gracious powers!" said Edith, whose eye at that instant caught a glance of the road which ran up the river, "and yonder they come!" "Yonder? where?" said the veteran; and, his eyes taking the same direction, he beheld a large body of horsemen coming down the path. "Stand to your guns, my lads!" was the first exclamation; "we'll make them pay toll as they pass the heugh.
"Snarling, barking little beast!" quoth Marietta to herself, "and all about nothing; I wish they would lose him." But when she got to the bottom of the garden and discovered the garden door open, she altered her tone. "How very silly of me to leave the door unlocked," she said to herself. "Poor little fellow, poor Mike, I'm coming, good dog. Heard someone, I suppose. Good gracious, what's that?
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