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Will you learn I say it openly from the noble chairman, how easy it is to be in earnest in life; how every one of you, amid all the artificial complications of English society in the nineteenth century, can find a work to do, a noble work to do, a chivalrous work to do just as chivalrous as if you lived in any old magic land, such as Spenser talked of in his "Faerie Queene;" how you can be as true a knight-errant or lady-errant in the present century, as if you had lived far away in the dark ages of violence and rapine?
She hath a good liking to dwell in the country, but she holds London the goodliest forest in England to shelter a great belly. She reads Greene's works over and over, but is so carried away with the "Mirror of Knighthood," she is many times resolved to run out of her self and become a lady-errant.
Spenser has a better plea for his "Faerie Queen," had his action been finished, or had been one; and Milton, if the devil had not been his hero instead of Adam; if the giant had not foiled the knight, and driven him out of his stronghold to wander through the world with his lady-errant; and if there had not been more machining persons than human in his poem.
Flora's colour rose again. "The hare, Sir," she said. "The hare!" cried Mr Bagnall, leaning back in his chair to laugh. "Well, Miss Flora, you are quixotic." "May I quote my father, Sir?" was her reply. "The world not ready for him? No, I should think not!" laughed Father. "Not just yet, my little lady-errant." Flora smiled quietly. "Perhaps it will be, some day. Uncle Courtenay," she said.
Are you going to set up as a lady-errant and right all syndicate wrongs? No, there was another, a bigger reason, Nance. I'm going to tell it to you what!" I pulled my hand from his; but not before that fat waiter who'd come in without our noticing had got something to grin about. "Beg pardon, sir," he said. "This message must be for you, sir. It's marked immediate, and no one else "
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