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Jean was in raptures with the graceful veils depending from the horned headgear, worn, she was told, by the Duchess of Burgundy; but Eleanor wept at the idea of obscuring the snood of a Scottish maiden, and would not hear of resigning it. 'I feel as Elleen no more, she said, 'but a mere Flanders popinjay. It has changed my ain self upon me, as well as the country.
What with the shock of him going in this awful rash way, and thinking myself a made man by that chance, I was nearly off my chump for a week. But no fear. The captain of the Pelion was shifted into the Ossa came aboard in Shanghai a little popinjay, sir, in a grey check suit, with his hair parted in the middle.
"A word with you, Hastings," said Montagu, thoughtfully, and he drew aside his fellow courtier: "what thinkest thou of this Burgundy bastard's visit?" "That it has given a peacock's strut to the popinjay Anthony Woodville." "Would that were all!" returned Montagu.
Pray, let me know your business here I assume it is business and get it ended quickly. I will expedite it all I may. Anything, to be rid of you and that popinjay in red beside you." "Your husband, madame," the King observed. "Aye, my husband, for a time," she answered. "Aye, Mrs. Spencer, your husband for a time for a purpose and for a consideration." She opened her eyes wide.
As if it was not enough that he should be insulted by a mere popinjay, at the very moment when he had been adding another stone to the fabric of his country's glory, papa came up. He actually wanted to take me away from Paul. I should have liked to see him do it. Of course I went down with Paul to the carriage, leaving papa to follow if he chose.
When the musters had been made, and duly reported, the young men, as was usual, were to mix in various sports, of which the chief was to shoot at the popinjay, an ancient game formerly practised with archery, but at this period with fire-arms. The Festival of the Popinjay is still, I believe, practised at Maybole, in Ayrshire.
And now, God have mercy on us! there is to be all the round of wars and proscriptions and massacres over again: Roma caput mundi herself piteously decapitate; and with every booby and popinjay rising in turn to kick her about at his pleasure; and here first comes Mark Anthony to start the game, it seems.
She thought much and she thought often of the young lord; but she took the impress of her lover's mind, and learned to regard her cousin, the Earl, as an idle, pretty popinjay, born to eat, to drink, and to carry sweet perfumes. "Just a butterfly," said the tailor. "One of the brightest butterflies," said the girl. "A woman should not be a butterfly, not altogether a butterfly," he answered.
No, but I hear he is something of a popinjay in his attire, and swelled up with the conceit that he is better than any of us colonists." "I do not think so," and the girl's cheek colored a deeper red. "He seems to be a very modest young man indeed. I liked him very much." "Oh, well, I have not seen him yet. But they say his father was a son of Belial, and fought under the tyrant at Naseby."
"I'm a fool to wish it," he answered; "those fine people will only laugh at me, and I know when I see that magnifico and his popinjay friend about Elsie I shall want to wring their conceited necks. But I'll go oh, it's no use telling lies! You understand just what a fool I am I came because I feel as if I must see her once more!"
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