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I may confess, however, that I am afraid of wagering against unknown odds." Borsdale reflected. Then he said, with deliberation: "Dr. Herrick's was, when you come to think of it, an unusual life. He is or perhaps I ought to say he was upward of eighty-three. He has lived here for over a half-century, and during that time he has never attempted to make either a friend or an enemy.
And there were men around her whose readiness to make the great sacrifice combated the poison of one man's failure. Daily she heard of this or that man whom she knew, either personally or by name, having volunteered and been accepted, and very often she had to listen to Miles Herrick's fierce rebellion against the fact that he was ineligible, and endeavour to console him.
Herbert was tall and thin with a quiet face and eyes which were truly "homes of silent prayer." In Herrick's face is something gross, his great Roman nose and thick curly hair seem to suit his pleasure-loving nature. There is nothing spiritual about him. After Herrick left college we know little of his life for eight or nine years.
The Farallone lay already far over; the sky was obscured with misty scud; and from the windward an ominous squall came flying up, broadening and blackening as it rose. Fear thrilled in Herrick's vitals. He saw death hard by; and if not death, sure ruin. For if the Farallone lived through the coming squall, she must surely be dismasted.
No, thank you, I've no intention of making friends with the people of Monkshaven." "They're not all conventional. Some of them are rather interesting Mrs. Maynard, for instance, and the Herricks." He gave her a keen glance. "Do you know the Herricks?" "Yes. Why don't you go to see them sometimes? Miles " "Oh, Miles Herrick's all right. I know that," he interrupted.
We have no poet whose lyrics are harder to set to music than good Robin Herrick's. They have a lilt of their own that is incompatible with ordinary music. Parker has, however, been completely successful in this instance. A mysterious, night-like carillon accompaniment, delicate as harebells, gives sudden way to a superb support of a powerful outburst at the end of the song.
They finished the last verses under the Hall windows, and then, after a greeting from the rector and the squire, they turned happily back to the village, singing Herrick's most perfect star song: "Tell us, thou clear and heavenly tongue, Where is the Babe that lately sprung? Lies He the lily-banks among?"
The captain drummed with his thick hands on the board in front of him; he looked steadily in Herrick's face, and Herrick as steadily looked upon the table and the pattering fingers; there was a gentle oscillation of the anchored ship, and a big patch of sunlight travelled to and fro between the one and the other. 'Hear me! Herrick burst out suddenly. 'No, you better hear me first, said Davis.
Thence into Wood Street, and there bought a fine table for my dining-room, cost me 50s.; and while we were buying it, there was a scare-fire An alarm of fire. One of the little pieces in Herrick's "Hesperides" is entitled "The Scar-fire," but the word sometimes was used, as in the text, for the fire itself. in an ally over against us, but they quenched it.
Rose " For a moment Herrick's wits deserted him beneath this recapitulation; and before he could hit on the right words, Toni had begun again. "They said it was a pity for a clever man to be tied to an ignorant wife, that I bored him to death; and Lady Martin said I was a parasite, clinging to him for money and food, and that I had spoilt his life and ruined his career " "Oh, that is nonsense!"
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