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But, strange to say, and considerably to the astonishment of Dick, the head of the family had a strong objection to that individual's visiting his ladye love; and absolutely mistaking him for a common burglar, seized him, with malice prepensé, to hand him over to "the perlice."
We are not at liberty to say more; but a tournament, at which His Ex-l-ncy B-r-n de P-nt-r and Thomas T-gr-g, Esq., eldest son of Sir Th s T-gr-g, are to be the knights-defendants against all comers; a QUEEN OF BEAUTY, of whose loveliness every frequenter of fashion has felt the power; a banquet, unexampled in the annals of Gunter; and a ball, in which the recollections of ancient chivalry will blend sweetly with the soft tones of Weippert and Collinet, are among the entertainments which the Ladye of T-gg-ridgeville has prepared for her distinguished guests."
It has always been called the "Ladye Arbour," although no one has been able to discover the origin of this name or the use to which the chamber was put; many antiquarians suggest a possible reference to the Virgin. It consists of a pointed arch under a lofty, richly ornamented pedimental moulding, having clustered shafts on the sides, with foliated capitals.
There is no evidence that his love was ever given to any 'faire ladye. No woman's name was ever connected with his, and from his detached attitude towards the tender passion he earned, in a fantastical court, the euphuistic appellation of L'amant d' Amour. Quite suddenly, after ten years in the queen's household, he fitted out an expedition to America. He gave no reason.
Then he lifted his helm for the fair one to see; But she sunk on the ground 'twas a skeleton's features, And Death was the Lord of the high-born Ladye! The beautiful voice throbbed away into silence, and the mandolin jarred and thrummed upon the floor. Violet Campion sat staring straight before her with eyes that were wide and fixed. Olga jumped up impulsively.
"Be still now, lad, 'til I have finished my ditty for this worshipful company; then, an't please thee to tell it, I will hear thy tale." The guests, who had looked somewhat sour at the interruption, unpursed their lips, and settled to listen as the minstrel took up his song: Woe, woe is me for the fair ladye, and the poor knight he, The poor knight Ah! cold was he.
"No," said Van, "this young lady was engaged only last evening." "S-sh," said Señora Payson, pointing to the open window, "Papa may hear you." Pocahontas, Freshman. "But when they lookt round for the Ladye Pocahontas, she hadde gone to her Yorke woodes, weepyng they saye."
Raymond; and it is scarcely necessary to observe that I was equally discreet in withholding from my employer and his "ladye love" all knowledge of the state of affairs between the other parties. I communicated my fears to Mr. Anderson, but he laughed at them saying "Nonsense, my dear boy why should Romaine suspect anything of the kind?
Your Grace may suppose yourself a Solomon if you please, but I am no travelling princess, come from distant climes, either to flatter your pride, or wonder at your glory." "A defiance, by Jupiter!" said the Duke. "You mistake the signal," said the 'dark ladye'; "I came not here without taking sufficient precautions for my retreat."
The next day it was resumed, and extended to twenty; during which Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating,
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