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To these they have added other types, which every Andalusian can recognise as old friends the sharp-tongued harridan, the improviser of couplets with his ridiculous vanity, the flower-seller, and the 'prentice-boy of fifteen, who, notwithstanding his tender years, is afflicted with love for the dark-eyed heroine.
"And they are the most dangerous," said Stefan. "Why do you suppose women were made pretty and fashioned to wear pretty clothes?" "Indeed I cannot tell." "To conceal their natural defects, lad. Whenever you see a pretty woman, look at the next harridan you meet, and remember that the difference between them is only on the surface." "You are too hard, Stefan," said Grigosie, laughing heartily.
You might have married some ugly old harridan for the sake of this Haygarth estate; you have secured a pretty and amiable wife, and you mustn't be downhearted if you find yourself, from a financial point of view, most outrageously sold." The Captain could not refrain from a laugh as he contemplated his young friend's surprise.
A monstrous female, almost pure white, huge, misshapen, hideous the ultimate harridan of the wolf-breed she stood a full two hands above the tallest of the rank and file of her evil clan.
"'Tis mighty fine lace to be thus hidden away," commented an elderly harridan. "Now, would you believe it, my fine madam, but my legs are bare underneath my kirtle?" "And dirty, too, I'll lay a wager," laughed another. "Soap is dear in Paris just now." "The lace on the aristo's kerchief would pay the baker's bill of a whole family for a month!" shouted an excited voice.
If he could bring himself to accept this as his fate he would be saved a deal of trouble. Spooning at Killancodlem, after all, would not be bad fun. He almost told himself that he would marry Miss Green, were it not that he was determined not to be dictated to by that old harridan. Many people came and went at Rudham Park, but among those who did not go was Guss Mildmay.
But her face was evil; it showed unmistakable signs of a long devotion to the bottle; the old eyes leered and ogled, the old lips were wicked. Spargo felt a sense of disgust almost amounting to nausea, but he was going to hear what the old harridan had to say and he tried not to look what he felt. "Well?" he said, almost roughly. "Well?"
"Safe aye, for sooth, wi' a great, ill rogue the like o' you! Loose her loose her or I'll scream and rouse the village on ye for a wild gipsy wastrel that ye are!" And here the old harridan railed at me until the child whimpered for fear and even I blenched before the woman's fierce aspect and shrewish tongue.
The harridan did as she had promised, and in a short time Fionn and Oisi'n and Oscar and Cona'n were released, and after that all the Fianna were released. As each man came out of the cave he gave a jump and a shout; the courage of the world went into him and he felt that he could fight twenty.
In the morning he was sober and pious, in the evening intoxicated and blasphemous, particularly, as I have said, when the weather was bad. "As for that infernal Chin-Tee," he would say in effect, shaking his fist in the direction of the idol, "it's all her fault we're in this mess. What's the use of her lazy harridan! Much she cares what becomes of us" and so on till overpowered by excess.
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