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He went at once up to Percy's room; and found that, if not decidedly better, he was at least no worse; and the Sisters of Charity, who were nursing him, said that the doctors had spoken hopefully at their last visit.
"He is a stout man-at-arms for, as you know, when the Scots cross the border, the abbot always sends a party of his stoutest monks to fight in Percy's ranks; as is but right, seeing that the Scots plunder a monastery as readily as a village.
She seemed to think Sir Antony might settle his property on Percy instead of on his son. Do you think there is any chance of it? 'I wish he would. He could not do a wiser thing. But of course it is entailed there's always a provision of nature for starving the younger branches. What does she say to Percy's absence! 'I fancy she guesses the reason, but I don't know.
"I don't believe in no gongs," remarked the musical one scornfully. "No nor trip-wires neither." He eyed his audience pugnaciously. "But, my good fellah er what do you believe in?" Percy's spirits were sinking. "Tins, china, cups and saucers, plates, old saucepans anything and everything wot will make a noise when the 'Un falls on it.
Alfred Percy, zealous and ardent in Lord Oldborough's service, the more this great man's character had risen upon his admiration, had already hastened to the country to prepare every thing at Clermont-park for his reception. By his orders, that establishment had been retrenched; by Alfred Percy's activity it was restored.
That M. Michelet should pretend to have forgotten this vilest of pasquinades, is more shocking to the general sense of justice than any special untruth as to Shakspeare can be to the particular nationality of an Englishman. The story which furnishes a basis to the fine ballad in Percy's Reliques, and to the Canterbury Tale of Chaucer's Lady Abbess.
He caught Percy's eye as it surveyed him coldly from the other side of the table, and nodded cheerfully. "Great pal of mine, Lord Belpher." The fluffy Miss Plummer twisted her pretty face into a grimace of disapproval. "I don't like Percy." "No!" "I think he's conceited." "Surely not? 'What could he have to be conceited about?" "He's stiff." "Yes, of course, that's how he strikes people at first.
She wondered what the comparison meant. "Paradise Lost" was so grand it tired her. Oh, there was the old volume of Percy's "Reliques." Did he mean like some of the sweet little things in that? Miss Arabella had said it wasn't quite the thing for a child to read, and had taken it away until she grew older. Uncle Winthrop took her hand again a small, slim hand; and his was slender as well.
Accordingly, on Monday at midnight, Sir T. Knyvett, accompanied by a small band of men, went to Percy's house, where, at the door, they found Guy Fawkes with his clothes and boots on.
Percy's care of the building, however, does not seem to have been particularly zealous, or else "the false Scottes" had again, as was their wont, proved themselves to be unpleasant neighbours, for in 1542 the place is described as "decayed in the Roof, and not in good reparation."
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