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There is a decorum to be used with a woman of figure, such as Lady Bellaston, brother, which requires a knowledge of the world, superior, I am afraid, to yours." "Sister," cries the squire, "I know you have no opinion of my parts; but I'll shew you on this occasion who is a fool. Knowledge, quotha!
"I assure your ladyship," says Slipslop, whose passions were almost of as high an order as her lady's, "I have no more to do with Common Garden than other folks. Really, your ladyship talks of servants as if they were not born of the Christian specious. Servants have flesh and blood as well as quality; and Mr Andrews himself is a proof that they have as good, if not better. Coarse, quotha!
"Hide me somewhere, Cris," he panted his accent proclaiming his Irish origin. "My God, hide me, or I'm a dead man this night!" "'Slife, Hogan! What is toward? Has Cromwell overtaken us?" "Cromwell, quotha? Would to Heaven 'twere no worse! I've killed a man!" "If he's dead, why run?" The Irishman made an impatient gesture. "A party of Montgomery's foot is on my heels.
And ever and anon Milnwood turned his eyes from the huge feeder to cast indignant glances upon his nephew, whose repugnance to rustic labour was the principal cause of his needing a ploughman, and who had been the direct means of his hiring this very cormorant. "Pay thee wages, quotha?" said Milnwood to himself, "Thou wilt eat in a week the value of mair than thou canst work for in a month."
And now, Belford, what dost think? That thou art a cursed fellow, if If no if's but I shall be very sick to-morrow. I shall, 'faith. Sick! Why sick? What a-devil shouldst thou be sick for? For more good reasons than one, Jack. I should be glad to hear but one. Sick, quotha! Of all thy roguish inventions I should not have thought of this.
"Now Our Lady keep her!" said the confidant, "she is quite frantic! heard ever any one of a watchmaker's daughter falling in love with a nobleman and a Scots nobleman, to make the matter complete, who are all as proud as Lucifer, and as poor as Job? A Scots nobleman, quotha? I had lief you told me of a Jew pedlar.
"Whist, mother," said John, looking back at her from the tail of his eye, "I go to France as an archer to give blows and to take them." "To France, quotha?" cried the old dame. "Bide here with me, and I shall warrant you more blows than you are like to get in France. If blows be what you seek, you need not go further than Hordle." "By my hilt! the good dame speaks truth," said Aylward.
"How should he be otherwise, with none of you idle-pated pages casting a thought to him?" "I was grieved to leave him but the Prince summoned me," began Richard. "Beshrew thee! Tell me not of princes, as though there were no one whom thou couldst bid to have a care of the little lad!" "I did bid Piers ," Richard made another attempt. "Piers, quotha?
'Suppose you adored a fascinating woman, and she knew positively knew your manly weakness, and you saw her smiling upon everybody, and she told you to be happy, and egad, when you came to reflect, you found that after three months' suit you were nothing better than her errand-boy? A thing to boast of, is it not, quotha?
Giles donned his best in the expectation of sitting in the places of honour as one of the family, and was greatly disgusted when Kit Smallbones observed, "What's all that bravery for? The tilting match quotha?
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