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My Lord of Piscopia hath the color of Venice." "But of the very household of our Queen: speak soft! Our Queen? Perchance this night may be her undoing how runs King Giacomo's will? Yea, for the matter of the fiefs, she hath been royal with her gifts a matter not so lordly when confiscation cometh thus easily."
Why, he shouts, he bellows, gives himself airs, poses as a sort of Bonaparte, does not let one say a word. . . . I don't know what the devil's the matter with him! These lordly gestures, this condescending tone; and laughing like a general! Who is he, allow me to ask you? I ask you, who is he?
As to the inconsiderable interval, have I the gracious permission of the Heaven-born to call up Moti Guj? Permission was granted, and, in answer to Deesa's shrill yell, the lordly tusker swung out of the shade of a clump of trees where he had been squirting dust over himself till his master should return.
The lordly sultan of the imprisoned seraglio thought fit to conduct himself in a very eccentric manner, for at every barn-yard we happened to pass, he clapped his wings, and crowed so long and loud that it afforded great amusement to the whole party, and doubtless was very edifying to the poor hens, who lay huddled together as mute as mice.
The poor lady had known how to deal with that ever grave and dignified father-in-law who nevertheless chucked young peasant girls under the chin without losing his sedate and lordly frigidity.
"After he got out of jail I saw him standing around for several days looking as lordly and unconscious as if he had been worth a million. But the pangs of hunger must have set his wits to work. For pretty soon he appeared on the streets with a wrinkled, decrepit, old Piute tied to a string.
Father! by that dread anathema which is on our race, which has made us homeless and powerless outcasts and strangers in the land; by the persecution and anguish we have known, teach thy lordly heart that we are rightly punished for the persecution and the anguish we doomed to Him, whose footstep hallowed our native earth!
Since then, the axe has done its work in the inhabited portions, opening up a landscape of singular loveliness in some parts; of stern, wild grandeur in others; nevertheless, enough of the lordly old woods still remains, to justify their claim to a place among the characteristics of Canadian scenery.
Then there might have been trouble but for the interference of the lordly Albert. "Don't you let him pinch nothin' off o' you, Alf," he said. "Mr. Silver's all right." "What ye mean?" asked the indignant Jerry. "Ain't he broke then?" "He'll be a rich man again by then I done with him," answered Albert loftily. "That's what I mean." "When will you be done with him then?" jeered Jerry.
In this lordly mood of the melodramatic, he gradually probably without knowing it became inattentive to the President. Lincoln used to go to his house to consult him, generally on foot, clad in very ordinary clothes. He was known to sit in McClellan's library "rather unnoticed" awaiting the General's pleasure.
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