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But time and practical life had, fortunately, cured him of all taste for these idle and dangerous mental gymnastics. And, besides, he was far too proper and well-bred to shock his innocent lady-love by taking into account so indelicate a possibility as that of their having a large family. There was great jubilation at the Sheriff's, and not there alone.
It was a long time before she ventured into company again, and ever after had a mortal aversion to mustaches and imperials. The count never after made his appearance in Philadelphia. The young man named Marston, who had jested with Abel Lee about the loss of his lady-love, was seated in his room some ten minutes after the sudden appearance of Mr.
'You deserve some reward for your good news, said Mab, and produced a silk knitted necktie of martial red, 'so here it is! 'Dearest, cried Captain Pendle, kissing the scarf, 'I shall wear it next to my heart; then, thinking the kiss wasted on irresponsive silk, he transferred it to the cheek of his lady-love.
On these occasions I used to consider with a sort of fierce humor how Nina would receive him for though she saw no offense in the one kind of vice she herself practiced, she had a particular horror of vulgarity in any form, and drunkenness was one of those low failings she specially abhorred. "Go to your lady-love, mon beau Silenus!"
The roundelay now commenced, in which each one must give the Christian name of his lady-love, and assuredly every second youth caught a name out of the air; some, however, repeated a name with a certain palpitation of the heart.
This most unexpected meeting with Inez and her father, with the restraint and coolness of the latter's manner to me, coming as it did close upon the heels of several hours of exposure and, what was worse, extreme excitement and anxiety of mind, rather pushed me off my balance, and for a moment or two after my lady-love vanished into the cabin I scarcely knew where I was.
"No, no, Sir Max," said Yolanda, protestingly, "you must not basely desert this lady-love whom you have never seen. If trouble should come to her, whoever she is, you must hasten to her rescue and carry her away. The best opportunity to rob, you know, comes in the midst of a mêlée. Take her, Sir Max. I wish you success."
One can easily imagine Villon an impatient wooer. One thing, at least, is sure: that the affair terminated in a manner bitterly humiliating to Master Francis. In presence of his lady-love, perhaps under her window, and certainly with her connivance, he was unmercifully thrashed by one Noë le Joly beaten, as he says himself, like dirty linen on the washing-board.
"It appears that the king took you one morning over the bridge of Blois to talk with his lady-love." "That's true," said D'Artagnan. "And you know that, do you? Well, then, you must know that the same day I gave in my resignation!" "What, sincerely?" "Nothing more so." "It was after that, then, that you went to the Comte de la Fere's?" "Yes." "Afterwards to me?" "Yes." "And then Porthos?" "Yes."
Next to a disdainful lady-love, the best thing for a writer and a reader is a furious father. But I must be truthful at all hazards, and I am obliged to say that while Mr.
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