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'No; it must be the flag of the SSSS's. 'That ought to be a bit of bare skin. 'No, no a pair of feet motto, "Off, vile lendings!" 'I say, I don't think you can get any farther, interposed Somerville. 'I've been on four rocks farther, and I'm sure you will never get back again if you go on. 'Oh, that's base! I'm sure this one isn't so hard.
In two more cuts we behold them drawing nearer to the other shore; and then, between two radiant angels, one of whom points upward, we see them mounting in new weeds, their former lendings left behind them on the inky river.
But truly all this glory hastened to decay, after our great master had been shot with three bullets on the field of Lutzen; wherefore, finding that Fortune had changed sides, that the borrowings and lendings went on as before out of our pay, while the caduacs and casualties were all cut off, I e'en gave up my commission, and took service with Wallenstein, in Walter Butler's Irish regiment."
Again I looked at the face; which was no longer turned from me on the contrary, the bonnet was doffed, the bandage displaced, the head advanced. "Well, Jane, do you know me?" asked the familiar voice. "Only take off the red cloak, sir, and then " "But the string is in a knot help me." "Break it, sir." "There, then 'Off, ye lendings!" And Mr. Rochester stepped out of his disguise.
And thus King Lear that impersonation of absolutism the very embodiment of pure will and tyranny in their most frantic form, taken out all at once from that hot bath of flatteries to which he had been so long accustomed, that his whole self-consciousness had become saturated, tinctured in the grain with them, and he believed himself to be, within and without, indestructibly, essentially, 'ay, every inch A KING; with speeches on his supremacy copied, well nigh verbatim, from those which Elizabeth's courtiers habitually addressed to her, still ringing in his ears, hurled out into a single-handed contest with the elements, stripped of all his 'social and artificial lendings, the poor, bare, unaccommodated, individual man, this living subject of the poet's artistic treatment, this 'ruined Majesty' anatomized alive, taken to pieces literally before our eyes, pursued, hunted down scientifically, and robbed in detail of all 'the additions of a king' must, of course, be expected to evince in some way his sense of it; 'for soul and body, this poet tells us, 'rive not more in parting than greatness going off.
Rather exalt yourself as more valuable to a miser than his whole lendings, and greater than all your father's losses as an equivalent, and even then putting your husband in debt, being so much richer than his account." "Where will be my share of love in this world, married so?" asked Vesta.
Once beyond Federal lines, and in friendly neighbourhood, it was but a few minutes' work to "off ye lendings," and secure a horse and riding-habit.
As Mike sat brooding over his wrongs in his study, after the Sammy incident, Jellicoe came into the room, and, without preamble, asked for the loan of a pound. When one has been in the habit of confining one's lendings and borrowings to sixpences and shillings, a request for a pound comes as something of a blow. "What on earth for?" asked Mike. "I say, do you mind if I don't tell you?
I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty. But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete. Think of it I did not even exist! Let me but escape into my laboratory door, give me but a second or
"O! my lord," said the soldier, in a sort of enthusiasm, "their behaviour on pay-day might be a pattern to all Europe no borrowings, no lendings, no offsets no arrears all balanced and paid like a banker's book. The quarters, too, are excellent, and the allowances unchallengeable; but then, sir, they are a preceese, scrupulous people, and will allow nothing for peccadilloes.
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