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There was such a town, according to Mr. Graves, but apparently he had made nothing of it. Was it a town that was meant? The dictionary gave only a few words beginning with "horn" hornet, hornblende, hornpipe, and horny none of which was of any assistance.
"Are you going to dance a hornpipe through the streets of West Lynne to-morrow, and show yourself openly?" "Not if I can help it," replied Richard. "You might just as well do that, if you come to West Lynne at all; for you can't be here now without being found out. There was a bother about your having been here the last time: I should like to know how it got abroad."
Last year after I had thanked him for his powerful "Address on Preaching" to a thousand ministers in London, he wrote to me: "It was an effort; for I could not trust myself to do without a manuscript, and I am so unaccustomed to reading what I have to say that it was like dancing a hornpipe in fetters," Yet manuscripts are not always fetters; for Dr.
Without speaking a word, and so preserving the letter of the rule, if not the spirit, they, with Tommy as leader, went through various pantomimic performances. They hitched up their trousers in seamanlike fashion, they pretended to row boats, they spit on their hands and hauled in imaginary ropes, and as a climax, Tommy danced a hornpipe on his toes.
The young madcap suddenly proposed that the girls should dance a hornpipe in the costume of Mother Eve, and they consented on the condition that we would adopt the dress of Father Adam, and that blind musicians were summoned. I told them that I would take off my clothes to oblige them, but that I had no hopes of being able to imitate the seductive serpent.
You think your galleries despotic when they call for an epilogue that is forgotten, and the actress who should speak it is undrest; or when they insist upon enlivening the last acts of Jane Shore with Roast Beef! What would you think if they would not dispense with a hornpipe on the tight-rope by Mrs. Webb? Yet, bating the danger, I assure you, the audience of Amiens was equally unreasonable.
Five strapping damsels so, at least, their petticoats bespoke them, in spite of an awful freedom in the flourish of their legs joined hands, and danced around him, inviting him by their gestures to perform a hornpipe in the midst. Released from these gay persecutors, a clown in motley rapped him on the back with a blown bladder, in which a handful of dried peas rattled horribly.
"Nay, sir; she's gone right off, and it's all right. My word, I wish we had got a fiddle here!" "A fiddle! What for?" "Hornpipe, sir. The boys are all bubbling over and don't know how to bear themselves. Nothing like a few kicks up and down the deck to a well-played old tune, to get rid of it all." "Why, what are you talking about?" cried Rodd. "Talking about, sir?
"Upon my word," said the baron, at length, "I feel so light I almost think I could dance a hornpipe. I used to, once, I know. Shall I try?" "Well, if you ask my advice," replied the goblin, "I should say, decidedly, don't. 'Barkis is willing, I dare say, but trousers are weak, and you might split 'em." "Hang it all," said the baron, "so I might. I didn't think of that.
But judging from his slight ability in later years, I fancy that he must have taken many lessons to secure his perfection in that hornpipe.
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