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"But 'tis the devil who rings the Angelus!" "Oh! the deaf man! the one-eyed creature! the hunch-back! the monster!" "A face to make a woman miscarry better than all the drugs and medicines!" And the two scholars, Jehan du Moulin, and Robin Poussepain, sang at the top of their lungs, the ancient refrain, "Une hart Pour le pendard! Un fagot Pour le magot!"* * A rope for the gallows bird!
"My darling, you must let me go," interposed the young Earl of Gloucester, who seemed scarcely less miserable than his bride. "Magot, my child, we may not stay justice," said the distressed tones of her father. Yet she held tight until Sir Piers tore her away. "Look to the damsel," he condescended to say, with a glance at Doucebelle and Bruno.
Lucia Darro's husband was never jilted by Laura Magot, for the impetuous and ambitious young man who was engaged to that lady is an entirely different person from my husband. Do you hear, Sir?" "Precisely; and who made him so entirely different?" "Hush, Sir! I've no time to hear such folly.
"All priests are not alike, my dear child. They are like other people some good, and some bad." "But surely all priests ought to be good." "Art thou always what thou oughtest to be, Magot?" Margaret's answer was a sudden spring from the stool and a fervent hug of Marjory. "Shocking, Magot!" "Oh yes, of course it is extremely wicked. But I do."
I shall be completely ruined among you!" "But my Lady will give me the sendal of Inde? I will try to do without the gipciere." A gipciere was a velvet bag dependent from the waist, which served as a purse or pocket, as occasion required. "Magot, hast thou no conscience? Come, then, old man, let this unreasonable damsel see thy gipcieres.
"There were reasons, Magot." The two Princesses exchanged smiles again, but there was some amusement in that of the Countess, while the expression of her sister was rather sad. Margaret looked from one to the other, as if she would have liked to understand what they meant. "Don't trouble that little head," said her mother, with a laugh. "Thy time will come soon enough.
Plumer had consented to accept an invitation to a little supper at his rooms very small and very select; Mrs. Newt, of course, to be present. The Plumers arrived, and Laura Magot; but a note from mamma excused her absence papa somewhat indisposed, and so forth; and Mr. Abel himself so sorry but Mrs. Plumer knows what these husbands are! Meanwhile the ladies have thrown off their shawls.
Moultrie begins again: "I ought to be allowed to explain that I only meant that as a cage is a home, so it is often used as a snare. Do you know, Miss Grace, that the prettiest birds are often put into the prettiest cages to entice other birds? By-the-by, how lovely Laura Magot is this evening!" He cuts a small piece of the peach with his silver knife and puts it into his mouth,
She smiles, as if the music had melted into a look. Then she hears it again: "Here is the sunniest side of the sunniest peach for Miss Plumer." Sligo Moultrie can not help hearing, for the tone is not low. But, while he is expecting to catch the reply, Miss Magot, who sits beyond him, speaks to him.
It did not strike either Marjory or Margaret, as perhaps it may the reader, that this speech presented a very curious medley of devotion, thankfulness, barefaced idolatry, and belief in dreams and lucky moments. To their minds the mixture was perfectly natural. So much so, that Marjory's response was "Doubtless it was so, Magot. It is always very unlucky to neglect a dream."
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