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For his sake she would humble herself to make the first advance, and this, for Delia's somewhat stubborn spirit, was a greater effort than might be supposed. Anna, meanwhile, was quite as much interested as the Dornton people about the picnic which the Palmers intended to give.
"Well," said he, "we have brought you some strangers. How do you like them?" "Hush! they will hear you." "Never mind if they do. It is only the Palmers. Charlotte is very pretty, I can tell you. You may see her if you look this way." As Elinor was certain of seeing her in a couple of minutes, without taking that liberty, she begged to be excused. "Where is Marianne?
Jennings's address to him when he first called on her, after their leaving her was settled "for they are quite resolved upon going home from the Palmers; and how forlorn we shall be, when I come back! Lord! we shall sit and gape at one another as dull as two cats." Perhaps Mrs.
There were pilgrims and palmers; hermits with hooked staves, who went to Walsingham and their wenches after them great lubbers and long that were loth to work; friars glossing the Gospel for their own profit; pardoners cheating the people with relics and indulgences; parish priests who forsook their parishes that had been poor since the pestilence time and went to London to sing there for simony; bishops, archbishops, and deacons, who got themselves fat clerkships in the Exchequer, or King's Bench; in short, all manner of lazy and corrupt ecclesiastics.
I'll attack her about the Palmers; if she is Mona Montague the girl that Ray Palmer loves she certainly will betray herself if I take her unawares; although she did not appear to know Mr. Palmer, last evening." Mona returned at this moment, and Mrs. Montague's musings were cut short.
In the wide, whoever is out of his own country is so far a pilgrim; in the narrow use, by pilgrim is meant he only who goes to or returns from the house of St. Those who go beyond the sea, whence often they bring back the palm, are called palmers. Those who go to the house of Galicia are called pilgrims, because the burial-place of St.
I will give you to wit of my welfare, in case I should meet any Palmers on their way home, and may be I can come back, an' there should rise a king who shall give us leave to live." "Well, my lad! I trow I must not let thee!" said Dame Lovell, in a grieved tone.
Jennings much more than civility; and civility of the commonest kind must prevent such a hasty removal as that." "Well then, another day or two, perhaps; but I cannot stay here long, I cannot stay to endure the questions and remarks of all these people. The Middletons and Palmers how am I to bear their pity? The pity of such a woman as Lady Middleton! Oh, what would he say to that!"
So Alice was dull with the loss of an adventure; and when the laughter of other girls reached her, intermittently, she had not sprightliness enough left in her to be envious of their gaiety. Besides, these neighbours were ineligible even for her envy, being of another caste; they could never know a dance at the Palmers', except remotely, through a newspaper.
These pilgrims always brought home with them branches of palm, to show that they had really been to the land where the tree grew; and so they were called palmers. To say that such-a-one was a palmer was far more than to say that he was a pilgrim."
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