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Paul laughed, but did not change his position. Sylvia indeed blushed and raised her head, but Paul still held her with his uninjured arm, defying Mr. Pash and all the world. "I am gathering rosebuds while I may, Mr. Pash," said he, misquoting Herrick's charming line. "You have plucked a very pretty one," grinned the monkey; "but may I request the rosebud's attention?"
The poet Shakespeare in his most remarkable effort, which, I need hardly tell you, is the tragedy of Hamlet, or the Prince of Denmark, has remarked that the thousand doors of death stand open. I may be misquoting the words, and if I am I do so boldly and without fear, for any fool with a book at his elbow can get the words right and yet not understand their meaning.
On their way they eyed the cottages and gardens to right and left with a lively curiosity; but "Lord, Bill," said the shorter seaman, misquoting Wordsworth unawares, "the werry houses look asleep!" At the "Punch-Bowl" Inn, kept by J. Coyne, they halted by silent consent. Mr. William Adams, who had been trundling the barrow, set it down, and Mr.
Her consort's habit of quoting, and especially of misquoting, was trying to her, but she now knew it to be incurable, like her daughter's occasional mannerism. She sat as usual rather silent, plotting out the next few hours of her busy time, her remarks being chiefly of a superfluous managerial nature to that thoroughly competent African, Moses Bruce.
Notwithstanding which fact Lord Oxley was of a mild, forgiving disposition had not he, Tom, spent the cricket week several summers running at Napworth Castle; where, on one celebrated occasion, he bowled a distinguished Permanent Under-Secretary first ball, and, on another, chided a marquis and ex-Cabinet Minister for misquoting Catullus.
"A man, manifestly another engineer, came up. The Mail driver lifted his torch and said, 'Hello, Yank, to which the new-comer made no direct response. He seemed to have something on his mind. 'What are you out on? asked the engineer, glancing at the other's overalls. 'Fast freight perishable must make time no excuse will be taken, he snapped, quoting and misquoting from my severe circular.
The man in the corner rubbed his chin thoughtfully, and looked out upon the busy street below. "I suppose," he said, "there is some truth in the saying that Providence watches over bankrupts, kittens, and lawyers." "I didn't know there was such a saying," replied Polly, with guarded dignity. "Isn't there? Perhaps I am misquoting; anyway, there should be.
"I d' know," said Herbert. "You take the common lightning-bug or, as it's called in some countries, the firefly " He continued, quoting and misquoting the entomological authority of the recent "Sunday Supplement"; but his friend on the other side of the fence was inattentive to the lecture.
She has been misquoting the 'Widow Bedott' for your benefit," said Mr. Sherwood. "And who is the 'Widow Bedott'?" "She is a character in a most amusing book. Let me advise you to take her as a travelling companion with you to-morrow. After you have read about her Shadrach, the poetry won't trouble you as being too personal." A short time later Mr.
But with two who blended, so there must be many added intervals of delicious nonsense before the reality of marriage came. They made odd names for things. They ate lobster together one day, and he, in some mood, kept misquoting and distorting passages from the Persian poet, and thenceforth broiled lobster was known to the two as "a Rubaiyat."
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