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I have watched him; he most thoroughly enjoys it! I am myself a quick or slow dresser, as the case may be. But to watch Jorian you cannot help entering into his enjoyment of it.
She rose and flung her arms round Jorian's neck. "Oh, bless the tongue that tells me so!" and she clasped the great rough fellow again and again, eagerly, almost fiercely. "There, there! let us lay him warm, said Jorian; and in a moment he raised Gerard and laid him on the bed-clothes.
But in that respect also I changed as the years went on. For of all things a boy loves not to be flouted and babyfied when he thinks himself already grown up and the equal of his elders in love and war. So in a little while came out Jorian and Boris, and, having carried in the bread and wine, we three sat down to the remains of the stew.
They formed a circle, one-half for the Dauphin, one for Roy. How long the boorish fun lasted, and what exactly came of it, I did not hear. Jorian DeWitt said my father lost his temper, a point contested by Wedderburn and Jennings, for it was unknown of him.
The doctor no more expected to see a Radical come into the world from a good family than a radish. But I discern you, my dear boy. Our reigning Families must now be active; they require the discipline I have undergone; and I also dine at aldermen's tables, and lay a foundation-stone as Jorian says with the facility of a hen-mother: that should not suffice them. 'Tis not sufficient for me.
Edbury came trotting up to us like a shaken sack, calling, 'Neigh! any of you seen old Roy? Bramham DeWitt, a stiff, fashionable man of fifty, proud of his blood and quick as his cousin Jorian to resent an impertinence, replied: 'Are you the Marquis of Edbury, or a drunken groom, sir?
Here is Jorian, and you, my son, and perhaps your aunt Dorothy, and upon my word, I think I have numbered all I know or, ay, Sukey Sampleman, I should not omit her in an honourable list and that makes positively all I know who would commiserate a man touched on the shoulder by a sheriff's officer not that such an indignity is any longer done to me.
Throughout the day I strove to combat the pressure of evidence in favour of the idea that an acknowledgement of special claims had been wrested from the enemy. Temple hardly helped me, though his solid sense was dead against the notions entertained by my father and Jorian DeWitt, and others besides, our elders.
Her accents were so full of agony that Jorian sprang out of the grave and came with her, huddling on his jerkin as he went. But as they hurried along, he asked her what on earth she meant? "I talk of this friar, and you answer me of Gerard." "Man, see you not, this is Gerard!" "This, Gerard? what mean ye?" "I mean, yon friar is my boy's father. I have waited for him long, Jorian.
When at last both supper and entertainment were finished, and the earthenware platters huddled away into the hall without, there arose a mighty clamor, so that Jorian went to the door and cried out to the landlord to know what was the matter. The old brick-dusty knave came hulking forward, and, with greatly increased respect, he addressed the men-at-arms. "What is your will, noble sirs?"
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