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Updated: June 11, 2025
The deck came up vertical, and for one instant longer Abel Keeling clung to the belfry. "I cannot see your face," he screamed, "but meseems your voice is a voice I know. What is your name?" In a torn sob the answer came across the water: "Keeling Abel Keeling.... Oh, my God!"
But the end, meseems, is further than ever, and he who should have helped us is disabled or ever he has stirred a finger, and even my lord Cardinal's home-coming is put off, albeit all men know that Herdegen is as a man in a den of lions and I, my spirit sinks within me. And even my wise grandmother can give me no better counsel than to 'wait patiently' and yet again 'Wait'..."
The like, he would say to me, hath often happened to him since, and when he was harassed with sore distress he must needs turn him about to stop a woman's tears; for which he thanked God most heartily, and prayed that so it might ever be, since thus he clean forgot his own sad plight. Whence, meseems, may men understand how noble a gentleman was my good lord the Sieur Rudel.
At the edge hereof their way-leader, the sergeant, bade draw rein, and said: Lords, we are now in the lands of the Red Hold, and therein is mickle peril and dread to any save stout hearts as ye be; but meseems we are so steaded, that whatever may come out of the Black Valley of the Greywethers to the Red Hold, ye now may scarce miss.
"To-night?" said Mistress de Chavasse curtly, but peremptorily, "what of to-night? ... I sent you orders from Thanet that I wished the house opened to-night ... Lord Walterton, Sir James Overbury and as many of our usual friends as were in the town, apprised that play would be in full progress.... Meseems," she added, casting a searching look all round the room, "that we have singularly few players."
To himself he thought, "That is very witty: I must remember to tell Lapidoth that." And he called for another glass of whisky. "Yes; but many of our sages, meseems, are dependent on their womankind. I have dispensed with woman; must I therefore dispense with support likewise?" Maimon was amused and shocked in one. He set down his whisky, unsipped. "But he who dispenses with woman lives in sin.
"Your plan is good and sound, and meseems as if the wench's fortune were already within my grasp." "Within our grasp, you mean, Marmaduke," she said significantly. "Our grasp of course, gracious lady," he said with a marked sneer, which she affected to ignore. "What is mine is yours. Am I not tied to the strings of your kirtle by lasting bonds of infinite gratitude?" "I will start to-morrow then.
How straight he sits in his saddle, how youthful yet is the fire in his eye, albeit he has past his fiftieth birthday! High spirit and contentment in his look; and meseems he has forgotten that he ever summoned the Diet to meet at Ratisbon and is entering the gates of Nuremberg against his will, by reason that the Electors and German princes have chosen to assemble there.
For all hath gone well so far, and now meseems betwixt us three we shall save thee. Birdalone's spirit came back to her at that word, and she put her hands to her face and fell a-weeping.
"It is indeed as you say," he affirmed, with a sour smile that sat very vilely on his yellow face. Brilliana leaned forward, and, governing his shifty eyes, spoke very impressively. "Now meseems you might win great credit in the King's eyes, at no cost to yourself, if you were to lay hands on this treasure in the King's name." Master Paul's alarm asserted itself in a shriek.
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