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The image was incessantly saluted, as she was borne along the streets, with sneers, imprecations, and the rudest, ribaldry. "Mayken! Mayken!" 'Tis your last promenade. The city is tired of you." Such were the greetings which the representative of the Holy Virgin received from men grown weary of antiquated mummery.
'I know what you're going to say, she went on, looking up at him rebelliously. 'I know what you're going to say every bit as well as if you'd said it. You're one of these city missionary sort of people, you are; and you're going to tell me it's awfully wicked of me to try and destroy myself, and ain't I afraid of a terrible hereafter! Ugh! I hate and detest all that mummery.
Nothing could have been more acutely malevolent than Oconostota's twinkling eyes; no words could have shown a keener edge of sarcasm than his greeting of the officer once more by the title of his dear brother. Stuart, impolitic for once, disdained to respond, and, grimly silent, eyed him with a sort of stoical defiance that struck the Indian's mummery dumb.
"Look you, young man," the outlaw said, "for ten years I've led a life of crime; I've committed murders, and robbed all who crossed my path, and laughed at the agony of those I have rendered penniless. Do you think that God is willing to pardon sins on such short notice?" "There is hope for all," I replied. "You may think so, but I don't believe in that kind of mummery.
"Then translate it for us, and quickly." Father Gottlieb took the parchment handed him by the Baron, and as his eyes scanned it more closely, he bowed his head and made the sign of the cross upon his breast. "Cease that mummery," roared the Baron, "and read without more waiting or the rod's upon thy back again. Who sends us this?"
On came the dreadful thing till it reached the King's Visitor, bowing to him and bellowing like a bull, then very deliberately untied some strings and let its horrid garb fall off, revealing the person of Thomas Bolle! "What means this mummery, knave?" gasped Dr. Legh. "Mummery do you call it, sir?" answered Thomas with a grin.
The company advanced with levelled pikes, but at a motion from the Seigneur his men fell back before them, and, making a lane, disclosed Michel de la Foret at the end of it. Michel had not approved of Lempriere's mummery of defence, but he understood from what good spirit it sprung, and how it flattered the Seigneur's vanity to make show of resistance.
He and the Princess his wife, dine every day with the King, to save the expense of two tables. What a mummery it must be to treat as a king a being who has lost the majesty of man!
He had so far recovered from the frightening effects of the marriage service that he was making light of it, and saying: "When will this mummery come to an end, I wonder?"
"Not since I had the honour to wait upon you, sir, to London." "But he is off the coast." "Under favour, sir, that accounts for my not seeing him on it." "Scoundrel!" exclaimed Burrell fiercely; "no such mummery with me, or I'll soon put you upon salt-water rations.
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