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I found myself wondering once or twice if he had known any great trouble that had embittered him. 'Well, I must tell you about poor Phoebe Locke, he began suddenly. 'I want you to find out what you can do for her. The Lockes are respectable people: Phoebe and her sister were dressmakers. They live a little lower down, at Woodbine Cottage.

"Heaven knows that pedagogic room was no place for visions, nor were those athletic young men fit companions for a soul gone giddy. Yet I lost my head. As I read on there returned to my heart a glow I had not known in forty years. The bard spoke of her hair: "'Her yellow lockes, crisped like golden wyre, About her shoulders weren loosely shed'

Sparkling brown eyes, full lips rich in humor and pugnacity, 'lockës crull as they were layde in presse, the same look of 'wonderly' activity too, in spite of his short stature and dainty make, as Chaucer lends his Squire the type was so fresh ad pleasing that Robert was more and more held by it, especially when he discovered to his bewilderment that the supposed stripling must be from his talk a man quite as old as himself, an official besides, filling what was clearly some important place in the world.

"Better for me to chip the old man and keep him quiet than for Jarrow to give him fits." "And I'm as well satisfied that Mr. Peth is going to live in the forecastle, if that's a measure of his temper," said Trask, who was more annoyed by the mate's request than he allowed the Lockes to see. "I didn't like his looks from the first," said Marjorie. "Oh, things'll get shaken down," said Locke.

One time, the boys found that the clerk was ringing the bells too late, and indignant at such a thing, they sent the following verses to him: "'Clerke of the Bow Bells, With the yellow lockes, For thy late ringing, Thou shalt have knockes. "The frightened man hastened to send this answer to the boys: "'Children of Chepe, Hold you all stille, For you shall have Bow Bells Rung at your wille."

The women are not sette oute to allure, ne pinched in to please, ne garnisshed to gase at. No heare died, no lockes outelaied, no face painted, no skinne sliicked, no countrefeicte countenaunce, nor mynsing of passe. No poticary practise, no ynckhorne termes, nor pithlesse pratling. Finally no colours of hipocrisie, no meanes to set out more beautie then nature hathe giuen them.

The colonel was naming the houses as they passed, with good old names. Here were the Jarvises, here the Russells, and here the Lockes. "But I don't know," said he, "what's become of them all." At a corner by a mammoth elm he turned down into another street, elm-shaded, almost as wide, and led them to the Inn, a long, low-browed structure built in the eighteenth century and never without guests.

And thou, O England! exalted art thou among the nations, not for thy Oxfords and Westminsters; not for thy divines and saints and martyrs and poets; not for thy Hookers and Leightons and Cranmers and Miltons and Burkes and Lockes; not for thy Reformation; not for thy struggles for liberty, but for thy Manchesters and Birminghams, thy Portsmouth shipyards, thy London docks, thy Liverpool warehouses, thy mines of coal and iron, thy countless mechanisms by which thou bringest the wealth of nations into thy banks, and art enabled to buy the toil of foreigners and to raise thy standards on the farthest battlements of India and China.

"That darkesome glen they enter, where they find That cursed man low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind; His griesly lockes long gronen and unbound, Disordered hong about his shoulders round, And hid his face, through which his hollow eyne Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound; His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine, Were shronke into the jawes, as he did never dine.

But untill they have refreshed themselves in the river, thou must hide thy selfe here by me, under this great plaine tree, and as soone as their great fury is past, thou maist goe among the thickets and bushes under the wood side and gather the lockes their golden Fleeces, which thou shalt finde hanging upon the briers.