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But in any case, the sight of the glorious tabernacle filled with a fury of excitement the dregs of the crowd who still lingered there. A child's outcry, more "malapert" than the priest, called the attention of the lingerers, and before any one knew, the passion of destruction had seized like a frenzy upon the people.
"Suppose your honor says you are going as your honor would say Bo! to a goose, plump, short, and to the point," said Wamba the Jester who was Sir Wilfrid's chief counsellor and attendant "depend on't her Highness would bear the news like a Christian woman." "Tush, malapert! I will give thee the strap," said Sir Wilfrid, in a fine tone of high-tragedy indignation.
Why cannot people teach people to take things quietly!" "How much that little one wanted to be Red Riding-hood," said Daisy. "Yes. Little Malapert!" "You will let her, won't you?" "I reckon I won't. You are to be Red Riding-hood unless, I don't know; perhaps that would be a good one to give Nora Dinwiddie. I shall see." That day was gone.
Nay, he is grown so bold and so malapert that but yesterday he despatched a woman to me at home with his idle tales and toys and sent me a purse and a girdle, as if I had not purses and girdles galore; the which I took and take so ill that I believe, but for my having regard to the sin of it and after for the love of you, I had played the devil.
On such wise did the worthy lady rid herself of the importunity of the malapert rector and Ciutazza gained the shift and a merry night." Emilia having made an end of her story and the widow lady having been commended of all, the queen looked to Filostrato and said, "It is now thy turn to tell."
At heart he ached for romance; but romance passed him by. The choice always fell on Lancelot or some other popular favourite. The tournament was followed by a feast. In those brave days almost everything was followed by a feast. The scene was gay and animated. Fair ladies, brave knights, churls, varlets, squires, scurvy knaves, men-at-arms, malapert rogues all were merry. All save Agravaine.
"He went presently to court," so Walsingham was informed by Stafford, "and dealt very passionately with the King and Queen-Mother to deny them audience, who being greatly offended with his presumptuous and malapert manner of proceeding, the King did in choler and with some sharp speeches, let him plainly understand that he was an absolute king, bound to yield account of his doings to no man, and that it was lawful for him to give access to any man within his own realm.
"Look here now, Master Malapert, see what you'll get when your father comes home! Lord a mercy! here was half a keg of powder standing open! Enough to have blown us all up! Here, Master Clarke, Master Clarke, come and keep this boy with you till his father come back, or we be all sent sky high before we know."
In this same impious malapert he had recognised M. le Marquis de St. Genis! The young man looked to be labouring under terrible excitement: his face was flushed and he was panting as if he had been running hard: "M. le Comte!" he cried breathlessly as soon as he caught sight of Hector, "tell M. le Comte that I must speak with him at once." "But M. le Marquis .
What, like Fay Morgaine's castles? Tell me in sooth, John; it imports me to know. What did this stranger, when thou spakest thus of the House of Montfort?" "He answered," said John; "he did not answer courteously he said, that I was a malapert little ass, and demanded again where this young Montfort's tent was.
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