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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Bloodshed and murder!" exclaimed the Lady, "what does the quean mean? if you speak not plain out, you shall have something you will scarce be thankful for."
But she must needs have a succession of Hysterical Fits after my departure from the Tower, and write me many scores of Letters couched in the most Lamentable Rigmarole, threatening to throw herself into Rosamond's Pond in St. But I was firm to my Determination to do her no harm, and therefore carefully abstained from answering any of her letters. A most frivolous Quean this, and I well rid of her.
Most of the monkish band had been made too happy by the deception practised on their Abbot concerning "Mary Quean," and were too desirous to have such a rogue to play his pranks in the dull abbey, to tell any tales on Laurence MacKim.
The old woman settled her spectacles on her nose, and looked up, taking a deliberate survey of the newcomer, as she said: "Hech! the quean is unco foine; they be braw claes to come to prison in. Eh, Cuddie, I wad suner hae any ither than ane o' these hizzies brocht in." "But, mither, the word is that she maun be made comfortable," said Cuddie.
What saw waur, he had unluckily not mentioned to any living soul of them his purpose of paying his rent. Ae quean had noticed something under his arm, but she took it for the pipes.
"Eh, sirs! wha the deil hae we here fra the ball?" they cried, gathering around her with curiosity. "Off, you wretches!" screamed Faustina, stamping at them. "Hech! but she hae a temper o' her ain, the quean," said one. "Ou, aye, just! It will be for sticking her lad under the ribs she is here," surmised another.
The women they had four women with them began that afternoon to weave the mats and baskets they hawked from door to door; and in the forenoon of the following day one of them, the black-haired, soft-voiced quean whom the bailiff had heard called Annabel, set her babe in the sling on her back, tucked a bundle of long cane-loops under her oxter, and trudged down between eight-foot walls of snow to the Abbey Farm.
He is always furnished with a song, to which his hammer, keeping tune, proves that he was the first founder of the kettle drum; where the best ale is, there stands his music most upon crotchets. The companion of his travel is some foul, sunburnt quean, that, since the terrible statute, has recanted gypsyism, and is turned pedlaress.
Brougham NEXT DAY." See what discord will creap even into the best regulated famlies. Here are six of 'em viz., the quean and her two daughters, her son, and his wife and daughter; and the manner in which they hate one another is a compleat puzzle. Princess Charlotte hates her father. Princess of Wales hates her husband.
"But I'm betterin'. Food's a blessin', however ye come by it." On a sudden, as she read his thought, the very tokens of health in his face accused her . . . and, a moment since, she had been merely glad to note them. "Clothes too, ye'll say? I don't set store by clothes, meself; but a fine han'some quean they make of ye. That's a mare, too!
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