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The size of the farmooze is supposed to be an index of the social position of the person or family, so that one can judge something of what sort of people are coming down the street, even on the darkest night, whenever the attendant link-boy heaves in sight with the farnooze.

Thence to White Hall; and in the Duke's chamber, while he was dressing, two persons of quality that were there did tell his Royal Highness how the other night, in Holborne, about midnight, being at cards, a link-boy come by and run into the house, and told the people the house was a-falling.

He who was of a stature to snatch the torch of life that flashes from lifted hand to hand along the generations, over the heads of inferior men, chose rather to be a link-boy to the stews. As a writer for the stage, he deliberately adopted and repeatedly reaffirmed the maxim that "He who lives to please, must please to live."

"I thought you were never coming," said Erica. "Why, you must be half frozen! What a night it is!" "We've been more than an hour groping our way from the station," said Raeburn; "and cabs were unattainable." Then, turning to the link-boy, "Come in, you are as cold and hungry as I am. Have you got something hot, Eric?" "Soup and coffee," said Erica. "Which would he like best?"

Sawney was tall and of noble race And lov'd me better than any eane But now he ligs by another lass And Sawney will ne'er be my true love agen. Ravenscroft, in The London Cuckolds , Act iii, introduces a link-boy singing this verse as he passes down the street. p. 394 There's nothing lasting but the Puppets Show.

She ran downstairs at full speed to open the door, and there upon the step stood a link-boy, the tawny light from his torch showing up to perfection the magnificent proportions of the man in a shaggy brown Inverness, who stood beside him, and bringing into strong relief the masses of white hair and the rugged Scottish face which, spite of cold and great weariness, bore its usual expression of philosophic calm.

"I do not suppose," she said, "that the landlord ever had heard that a link-boy is a torch-bearer." "I had the pleasure of attending services at your church last Sunday," said Lord Upperton to the rector, when they were seated at the table. "I noticed that you have a substantial stone edifice." "Yes, my lord, and we regard it with what, I trust, is reverential pride.

An intemperate man of learning is like a blind link-boy: He shows the road to others, but sees it not himself: whoever ventured his life on an unproductive hazard gained nothing by the risk, and lost his own stake. A kingdom is embellished by the wise, and religion rendered illustrious by the pious.

At night, too, the footman, taking advantage of a ball at Holdernesse, or a concert at Lansdowne House, and knowing that, in either instance, the link-boy will answer when necessary for his summoned name, ventures to look in at his club, reads the paper, talks of his master or his mistress, and perhaps throws a main.

"Well, it is the house of Maria Vittoria, Mademoiselle de Caprara, the heiress of Bologna, who has only this evening come to Rome. And so no later than this evening I am playing link-boy, appointed by letters patent, one might say. But what will you? Youth is youth, whether in a ploughboy or a But my tongue needs a gag. Another word, and I had said too much.