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This was done in the case of the Lees, it was also done in the case of Jane Porter, the writer of the once famous and favourite Thaddeus of Warsaw and Scottish Chiefs : while, as we have seen, there had been historical colour enough in Godwin's novels to make suggestion of his "authorship of Waverley" not absolutely preposterous. Even Mrs.
"That's as muckle as to say, Speer nae questions, and I'll tell ye nae lees. To Glasgow?" he made a short pause "I am thinking ye wad be the better o' some ane to show you the road." "Certainly, if I could meet with any person going that way." "And your honour, doubtless, wad consider the time and trouble?"
But by a very ordinary process in the human mind, as Jasper had fallen lower and lower into the lees and dregs of fortune, his pride had more prominently emerged from the group of the other and gaudier vices, by which, in health and high spirits, it had been pushed aside and outshone. "Humph!" said Poole, after a pause.
Under the first drops of the rain most of the women had come huddling down for shelter inside; panic had presently driven down the rest. Yet on one roof one woman still was. A strange, drenched figure, she stood bright-eyed in the dimness; alone, as it was well she should be in her great hour; draining the lees of such homage as had come to no woman in history recorded.
Squish, squash, bubble; squash, squish, guggle; and your feet as though you had been wading through slaughter to a throne. Yes, Bunny, you mightn't think it, but this good right foot, that never was on the wrong side of the crease when the ball left my hand, has also been known to 'crush the lees of pleasure From sanguine grapes of pain."
And, drawing himself up to his full height, the old man pointed a quivering finger at the pool. 'Ay, it's got her an your stones are tied fasst! Passon Maine says she's safe that yo'll see her naw moor While holly sticks be green, While stone on Kinder Scoot be seen. But I tell yo, Passon Maine lees! I tell yo t' witch ull walk t' witch ull walk!
Good fresh lees, from rather astringent wines are also an excellent remedy when the wine becomes flat, as before described. The process of wine making before described, however, can only be applied in such seasons, and with such varieties of grapes, that contain all the necessary elements for a good wine in due proportion.
And the maiden was Anne Hill Carter, daughter of the genial host; and the young General was "Light Horse Harry" Lee. The dreams of further glory on French battlefields were abandoned; and there was another feast at Shirley when bridal roses of June were in bloom. The young people went to live at Stratford, the ancestral home of the Lees; and there was born their famous son, Robert E. Lee.
I'll go my own way, mark or no mark." He picked up his hat and hurried out. "And now I'll drink it to the dregs! "Why not? I've tasted the rarest wine in cups of purest crystal why not swallow the lees of a baser drink from a tavern stoup? 'Tis the last that drowns regret. Others have done so why not I?
Tidy drank in eagerly every word he could tell her of the Lees, and others whom she knew, and they were enjoying an animated conversation when Tidy's master passed that way.
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