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"Some of those moon-struck poetry fellows, I'll be bound," said the squire contemptuously. "Nay, a very gallant knight," said Neville, who had when a boy, read with delight Sir Thomas Mallory's book of King Arthur; but he did not seem to relish the comparison and led the conversation into a serious vein, as befitting the solemn occasion.
"I do fear thou'rt be-devilled and moon-struck, master!" "Why so?" "Betimes thou dost smile upon the moon for no reason; scowl upon the earth for no reason; work with thy lips yet speak no word, and therewith do bite thy fingers-ends, clench thy fists and all for no reason. Moreover, thou'rt quick and slow in thy gait, sighing gustily off and on so it is I do sweat for thee." "And wherefore?"
Miss Burgoyne had, indeed, on one occasion introduced the young man to him; but he had paid little heed; most likely he regarded him with the sort of half-humorous contempt with which the professional actor is apt to look upon the moon-struck youths who bring bouquets into the stalls and languish about stage-doors. However, he told the house-porter to ask the gentleman to step up-stairs.
Cheyne, in the boudoir stateroom, where the French maid, sallow-white with fear, clung to the silver door-handle, only moaned a little and begged her husband to bid them "hurry." And so they dropped the dry sands and moon-struck rocks of Arizona behind them, and grilled on till the crash of the couplings and the wheeze of the brake-hose told them they were at Coolidge by the Continental Divide.
"It is all madness moon-struck madness," she exclaimed, and her arms dropped at either side as she spoke; "some cruel witchery surrounds me; but I will speak and break the spell. Father, you are not a murderer? you did not murder " and she, too, whispered a name, as if it were one that the breath of heaven should not bear.
Courtiers and noblemen and great lords were waiting for their coming, some of whom helped him to dismount from the horse, for by this time the beggar was so overcome with wonder that he stared like one moon-struck, and as though his wits were addled.
"Because they are all moon-struck," she answered. "And what is it to be moon-struck?" he asked. "Surely you should know, if any one!" laughed the fairy. "To see things beautifully, and not as they are. On the moon you will be able to do that without any difficulty." "Ah," said the little Jackdaw, "now I know at last that the beautiful is going to come true!"
That girl why she oughtn't to be allowed to go at large, and therefore I've shut her up; and shut up she shall be for the remainder of her days, like a good Spanish wife. But I must have a few more words with my moon-struck lover." With these thoughts Lopez sauntered back to where Harry was standing, fixed upon the spot where he had left him.
'Thursday, was slightly whispered. 'Thursday! ah! now I begin to understand the cause of your being suddenly moon-struck. 'Ah! madame, pardon me! 'I see it was the only way to avoid a tete-a-tete! said Albinia. 'Well done, Genevieve. What had he been saying to you, my dear? Poor Genevieve cast about for a word, and finally faltered out, 'Des sottises, Madame.
"Moon-struck, or sun-struck, or saint-struck, she will strike down our ancient enemy of England, and show you men how it is not wine and wickedness that make good soldiers!" cried the girl whom he called Elliot, her face rose-red with anger; and from her eyes two blue rays of light shot straight to mine, so that I believe my face waxed wan, the blood flying to my heart.
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