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Long and loud they revelled. They had a few bottles of cider. "Give me the corkscrew, the cider sha'n't be kept till it's sour," cried Townsend, in answer to the manager, who, when he beheld the provisions vanishing with surprising rapidity, began to fear for the morrow. "Hang to- morrow!" cried Townsend, "let Greybeards think of to-morrow; Mr. Manager, here's your good health."
But the ancients must surely know; and they held women cheap. 'Levius quid femina, said they, which is but la Jeanneton's tune in Latin, 'Le peu que sont les femmes. Also do but see how the greybeards of our own day speak of them, being no longer blinded by desire: this alderman, to wit." "Oh, novice of novices," cried Denys, "not to have seen why that old fool rails so on the poor things!
It is the way of one of these five men, greybeards all and milkmen from infancy, to rub his hands by the fire when the great logs burn, and to settle himself more easily in his chair, perhaps to sip some drink far other than milk, then to look round to see that none are there to whom it would not be fitting the tale should be told and, looking from face to face and seeing none but the men of the Ancient Company, and questioning mutely the rest of the five with his eyes, if some of the five be there, and receiving their permission, to cough and to tell the tale.
Go he must, to-day or to-morrow; and what better place for greybeards? "Oh, culpa mea! culpa mea!" cried Gerard, and smote upon his breast. "Look there!" cried Martin to Margaret scornfully, "he is a priest at heart still and when he is not in ire, St. Paul, what a milksop!"
These are not times to sacrifice to the dotage of greybeards, or the tears of silly women, the measures of salutary severity which the dangers around compel us to adopt. And remember, that if I now yield this point, in compliance with your urgency, my present concession must exempt me from future solicitations of the same nature."
The palace accounts were on the table three thousand pounds for a masque extravagance only surpassed by Nicholas Fouquet twenty years afterwards, when he was squandering the public money. 'My wife is a bad housekeeper, his Majesty said gently, and then he drew down the little French museau with a caressing hand, and kissed her in the presence of those greybeards."
There is no market here, no commercial or social life, save a few greybeards discussing memories on some doorstep; the only mirthful note is a swarm of young boys playing hockey on the sand-heaps, amid furious yells and scrimmages.
I had taken the opportunity of an hour's tete-a-tete with Emily, which Clara had considerately given us before breakfast, to speak of our anticipated union and finding there were no other obstacles than those which are usually raised by "maiden pride and bashful coyness," so natural, so becoming, and so lovely in the sex, I determined to speak to the greybeards on the subject.
Yet, every day the swanlike daughter of Leda comes out on the battlements, and looks down at the tide of war. The greybeards wonder at her loveliness, and she stands by the side of the king. In his chamber of stained ivory lies her leman. He is polishing his dainty armour, and combing the scarlet plume. With squire and page, her husband passes from tent to tent.
Archer and his associates had agreed to stay the last in the schoolroom; and as soon as the Greybeards were gone out to bed, he, as the signal, was to shut and lock one door, Townsend the other. A third conspirator was to strike a light, in case they should not be able to secure a candle.
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