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The herring was an important article of food. Money was measured in marks, shillings, and pence. Of the current coins those in gold were called the angel, half-angel, the noble, half-noble, and quarter-noble; in silver there were the groat, half-groat, the penny, and half-penny. The local branch of the royal Mint was housed within the Castle.
The maintenance of the establishment, the servants, and the ever increasing train of milliners and dressmakers would be enough to satisfy Madame la Marquise's ambitions. But for Sylvie, half-fairy, half-angel as she is, there must be poetry and moonlight, flowers, and romance, and music, and tender nothings, marriage does not consort with these delights.
They made of her a being, half-angel and half-toy, but I refuse to be bound by their outworn ideas. "Nowadays we prate less priggishly about honor because it is no longer a word with a single meaning." He paused a moment, then went on in a climax of vehemence. "From this moment on your New England code and my inherited chivalry may be hanged on the same gibbet!
And then before his fancy appeared to float the radiant visage of Edris, half-child, half-angel, he seemed to see her beautiful eyes, so pure, so clear, so unshadowed by any knowledge of sin, and the exquisite lines of a poet-contemporary, whose work he specially admired, occurred to him with singular suggestiveness: "Oh, thou'lt confess that love from man to maid Is more than kingdoms, more than light and shade In sky-built gardens where the minstrels dwell, And more than ransom from the bonds of Hell.
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