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That was just at sundown; and half an hour after, in comes the gaoler to take a last look at us for the night, and his keys at his girdle. But my tale has been over-long already, gentlemen " "Go on till midnight, my good fellow, if you will." "Well, sirs, they chose me for captain, and a certain Genoese for lieutenant, and away to go.
The Turk hath also so many men of arms in his retinue at his continual charge that, lest they should lie still and do nothing, but peradventure fall in devising of some novelties among themselves, he is fain yearly to make some assembly and some changing of them from one place unto another, and part some asunder, that they wax not over-well acquainted by dwelling over-long together.
In seven weeks all was prepared, both apparel and also arms and armour; and there was nothing that was either over-long or over-short, or that could be surpassed for comeliness. Great thanks did the warriors give to each fair seamstress, and to Kriemhild the beautiful the greatest thanks of all.
I said nothing. Dolly rose and walked to the window. She swung the tassel of the blind and it bumped against the window. The failing sun caught her ruddy brown hair. There were curls on her forehead, too. "It's a grand world," said I. "And, after all, one can grow old very gradually." "You're not really old," said Dolly, with the fleetest glance at me. A glance should not be over-long.
The reason of all these things I mean, of the over-long marches, of the counter-marches, and of the short days was the complexity of the only plan by which a great number of men and guns can be taken from one large place to another without confusion by the way living, as they must do, upon the country, and finding at the end of every march water and hay for the horses, food and some kind of shelter for the men.
When my uncle said in jest that the wise owl from Padua seemed to wear a motley of gay feathers, his intent was plain as soon as one looked at my brother; and in the fine clothes he had chosen to wear at supper the noble lad was less to my mind than in the hunting weed which he had journeyed in, inasmuch as the too great length of the sleeves of his mantle was in his way when eating, and the over-long points to his shoes hindered him in walking.
Longdon, as she appeared to pause with the weight of her idea. "Why she won't get one late she won't get one at all. One, I mean, of the kind she'll take. She'll have been in it over-long for THEIR taste."
As the Island Mindanao lies very convenient for Trade, so considering its distance, the way thither may not be over-long and tiresome.
We saw we had been fools to be so overcast by guile, and yet were we exceeding ill at ease, and over-long the time seemed unto us until we should be come to the Isle of Increase Unsought, and find our lovelings there.
But he went with us, accompanied by a very lean young Frenchman with a soft felt hat, an over-long frock-coat, tweed trowsers, and a black alpaca umbrella. He looked like a French translation of some character of Dickens. At last we arrived at the grave. "C'est la!" and both guardians shook their heads dolefully. "Tres pauvre!" sighed one. "Rien du tout rien," sighed the other.
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