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"I did so by order of the king, and am only fulfilling his commands in offering you my escort now." "I shall go on, and I cannot prevent your following me." "But I beg of you," said Eulaeus, "to consider that it would ill-become me to walk behind you like a servant." "I respect the wishes of my host, the king, who commanded you to follow me," answered the Roman.
Sir, it would ill-become me to dispute your will, answered she, modestly, but as I yet am very young, and have never had a thought of marriage, nor even conversed with any who have experienced that fate, I should be too much at a loss how to behave in it, without being allowed some time to consider on its respective duties.
"Now, sir," said he, returning, "speak out your mind and fear nothing; though before you begin," he cries out, "I tell you mine misgives me! I tell you beforehand, ye're either a Stewart or a Stewart sent ye. A good name it is, and one it would ill-become my father's son to lightly. But I begin to grue at the sound of it." "My name is called Balfour," said I, "David Balfour of Shaws.
Spikeman winced, and perhaps his conscience pricked him at the moment, but he betrayed no confusion as he replied: "I thank thee, sweet duck, and may the Lord recompense thy love a thousand fold. But hasten, now, for it would ill-become the wife of my bosom to lag in attendance on the lecture. Meanwhile, I will meditate on the holy volume, and comfort myself as a Christian man may."
"I did so by order of the king, and am only fulfilling his commands in offering you my escort now." "I shall go on, and I cannot prevent your following me." "But I beg of you," said Eulaeus, "to consider that it would ill-become me to walk behind you like a servant." "I respect the wishes of my host, the king, who commanded you to follow me," answered the Roman.
Between them the Klondike woman sat with a restraint that would actually not have ill-become one of our own women. She did not look about; her hands were still, her head was up. At former times with her own set she had been wont to exhibit a rather defiant vivacity. Now she did not challenge. Finely, eloquently, there pervaded her a reserve that seemed almost to exhale a fragrance.
And inasmuch as I have not shrunk from making mention of certain matters which many will deem of small honor to Herdegen, who was, by the favor of Heaven, so far more highly graced in all ways than I, who have never been other than middling gifted, it would ill-become me to shrink from relating matters whereof I myself have lived to repent.
"I did so by order of the king, and am only fulfilling his commands in offering you my escort now." "I shall go on, and I cannot prevent your following me." "But I beg of you," said Eulaeus, "to consider that it would ill-become me to walk behind you like a servant." "I respect the wishes of my host, the king, who commanded you to follow me," answered the Roman.
"I am very grateful for your good intentions, of course, very grateful; but here each one must work for herself, and it would ill-become me to allow you to give me the money you have earned."
A good name it is, and one it would ill-become my father's son to lightly. But I begin to grue at the sound of it." "My name is called Balfour," said I, "David Balfour of Shaws. As for him that sent me, I will let his token speak." And I showed the silver button. "Put it in your pocket, sir!" cries he, "Ye need name no names. The deevil's buckie, I ken the button of him! And de'il hae't!
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