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Updated: May 11, 2025
Early next morning the citizens saw that a part of the city-wall near the Cow-Gate had fallen, and then unexampled rejoicing arose at the breach, no longer dangerous; exultant cries echoed through every street and alley, drawing from the houses men and women, grey-beards and children, the sick and the well, one after another thronging to the Cow-Gate, where the Beggars' fleet was seen approaching.
Bald-pates, see you, and grey-beards, who for their own ends would have her wed Duke Ivo meek, unfortunate maid!" "Know you then the Duchess, lady?" "Aye, forsooth, and my heart doth grieve for her, poor, sweet wretch, for O, 'tis a sad thing to be a duchess with a multitude of suitors a-wooing in season and out, vaunting graces she hath not, and blind to the virtues she doth possess.
The news of so unlucky an event soon reached the ears of the Emir, who abandoned himself to grief and despair, and began, as did all his old grey-beards, to begrime his visage with ashes.
But then youth has little in common with age, and when young men make confidences of this kind, it is to young men that they make them, and not to grey-beards like me. But tell me, Cameron, for you know I must needs divine something from all this; your sister loves my boy Maurice?" "If you think so, sir," answered Philip, "you must keep her secret."
In consequence of this, Lumeresi daily assembled his grey-beards and had councils of war in his drum-house; but though his subjects sent to him constantly for troops, he would not assist them. He, like the rest of the porters in the caravan, wore a shirt of fig-tree bark called mbugu.
These commonly concern petty internal matters; for they are too selfish and too narrow-minded to care for anything but their own private concerns. The grey-beards circulate the orders of the chief amongst the village chiefs, who are fined when they do not comply with them; and hence all orders are pretty well obeyed.
The grey-beards of Ripplemouth talked it over, and said they were glad that Captain Duncan had woke up and was ready to defend the Gap when the French came to our part of the coast, and they said they expected great things of him. "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Bob Chowne one day, as he came over; "heard the news?" "No," I said; "have the French come?"
Could he really be the same individual as the daring youth who then organised the crazy councils of those ambitious, imbecile grey-beards? What was he then? What had happened since? What was he now? He turned from the comparison with feelings of sickening disgust, and it was with difficulty that his countenance could assume the due degree of hilarity which befitted the present occasion.
It is ridiculous for a charming girl like you to take the stand you have. Let me see you're thirty now and not a single man will you encourage scarcely tolerate except a few grey-beards like my own good husband." Natalie feigned gay laughter, though a bitter pang shot through her heart at the unconscious stab of the good Countess.
Thus a period of enforced calm a kind of vacation, as if these great soldiers and grey-beards had been a troop of idle school-boys was now established, without the slightest reason. President Jeannin took occasion to make a journey to Paris, leaving the Hague on the 20th June.
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