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I am conscious that, were her fate not so exceptional, this hope of mine would be a vain presumption, conscious that I am but the creature of her grandsire's bounty, and that from it springs all I ever can be, conscious of the disparity in years,-conscious of many a past error and present fault. But, as fate so ordains, such considerations are trivial; I am her rightful choice.
"It was across her grave I saw thee, dear, dost mind thee of that hour?" "Thy mother's grave? ay, I mind me." "Yes, thou camest with thy cousin Barbara to seek thy grandsire's gravestone and to search out the muniments of thy race. Thou 'lt never lay hands on that inheritance, Myles." "I care not, so thou wilt get strong and well again, my Rose, my Rose!"
The earl uttered a half-stifled exclamation, but the minstrel heard not the interruption, and continued, "Methinks the sun hath never smiled Upon the exiled man, Like that bright morning when the boy Told all his soul to Anne." "No; while his birthright but a name, A grandsire's hero sword, He would not woo the lofty maid To love the banished lord."
Thou hast not got burghers by the ear, that know not a veal knuckle from their grandsire's ribs; but soldiers-men that have gone to look for their dear comrades, and found their bones picked as clean by the crows as these I doubt have been by thee and thy mates. Men and women, saidst thou? And prithee, when spake I a word of women's bones? Wouldst make a child suspect thee.
"He is strong and fair, and full of promise, and brave as his grandsire's sword." "And knows he knows he well that we all are the potter's clay in the hands of God?" "My liege," said Warwick, embarrassed, "he has as much devotion as befits a Christian knight and a goodly prince."
Among the other youth of whom Yseult was beloved was Alfred, and he was sore angered that Yseult showed favor to Harold, so that one day Alfred said to Harold: "Is it right that old Siegfried should come from his grave and have Yseult to wife?" Then added he, "Prithee, good sir, why do you turn so white when I speak your grandsire's name?"
Ward, but I don't think so badly of him as to suppose he will ever forgive thee that blow with the ruler. Colonel Washington is our enemy, mine especially. He has advised one wrong against me, and he meditates a greater. I tell you, brother, we must punish him." The grandsire's old Bordeaux had set George's ordinarily pale countenance into a flame.
The farmer answered in a surly tone, that I had been only too well treated, for that I was a worthless young scoundrel; high words ensued, and the farmer, forgetting the kind of man he had to deal with, checked him with my grandsire's misfortune, and said he deserved to be hanged like his father.
Through the Grandsire's grace thou hast obtained energy that is superior to that of the Kshatriyas. And it is for this that thou insultest me. Behold me now in my native form: I give thee sight."
A young boy, Stefanello, who afterwards succeeded to the representation of the direct line of the Colonna, and whom the reader will once again encounter ere our tale be closed, was playing by his grandsire's knees. He looked sharply up at Savelli, and said, "My grandfather is too wise, and you are too timid. Frangipani is too yielding, and Orsini is too like a vexed bull.
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