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BOWMAN. "For him that pays most, pecuniae obediunt omnia, brother." "Money? And nought beside?" "As what, brother?" BELTANE. "The justice of the cause wherefore ye fight." BOWMAN. "Justice quotha cause! O innocent brother, what have such matters to do with such as I? See you now, such lieth the case.
Here are ye clavering about the Duke of Argyle, and this man Martingale gaun to break on our hands, and lose us gude sixty pounds I wonder what duke will pay that, quotha I wish the Duke of Argyle would pay his ain accounts He is in a thousand punds Scots on thae very books when he was last at Roystoun I'm no saying but he's a just nobleman, and that it's gude siller but it wad drive ane daft to be confused wi' deukes and drakes, and thae distressed folk up-stairs, that's Jeanie Deans and her father.
A massive mantel-piece was on the opposite side, with an immense fireplace, and heavy brass andirons and fender. She felt that she could never forgive herself her part in the scene of the morning, that wild, impulsive cry that voiced at once confession and a plea for pardon. At the sheer recollection of his rejoinder she tingled and winced as from the touch of fire. "Don't mention it," quotha.
"She did not give me precedence over her daughters, but then she is of the blood royal, and I am not. But " "Not royal!" exclaimed Mother Joan in extremely treble tones. "Have they brought thee up so ignorantly as that? Not of the blood royal, quotha! Child, by our Lady's hosen, thou art fifty-three steps nearer the throne than she! Philippa was silent from astonishment. "Go on," said the nun.
Stick to the lever of a steam hammer, when the ram kicks the safety-trigger! Stick to the two-man tug-of-war rope, when an Irish quarryman, named Bamey, has hold of the other end! Stick to him, quotha! Easier said than done is it not? However, you have stuck to him for a good solid sixty seconds; now, one of your knees has slipped over the pad, and your stirrup is swinging loose.
"I would fight with proadswords, and sink point on the first plood drawn like a gentlemans." A loud shout of laughter followed the proposal, which indeed had rather escaped from poor Robin's swelling heart, than been the dictate of his sober judgment. "Gentleman, quotha!" was echoed on all sides, with a shout of unextinguishable laughter; "a very pretty gentleman, God wot.
Moreover, I lie here, by this water, to learn by root-of-heart a lesson which my master teaches me to call Peace, or Contentment." Hereupon, Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: "Learning, quotha!" said he; "I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!"
Why, naturally, I deplore a failure, let the cause be what it will. Whose regrets can eclipse those of the principal actor? Quotha! as our old Plays have it. Regrets? Did I not for fifteen minutes and more of mortal time sit in view of a multitude, motionless, I ask you, like a chiselled block of stone, and the compact was one quarter of an hour, and no farther? That was my stipulation.
"It is a woman, and so of course you will help me. Our sex for the bottom of all mischief, Mere Malheur! I do not know what women are made for except to plague one another for the sake of worthless men!" The old crone laughed a hideous laugh, and playfully pushed her long fingers into the ribs of La Corriveau. "Made for! quotha! men's temptation, to be sure, and the beginning of all mischief!"
'Harmless and peaceable, quotha? said he; 'it was one of these peaceable creatures flung me into the dust like a worm; but the worm turns, you know. I took much pains to requite that kindness, and now I cry quits with Master Andrew. 'Your wickedness shall return on your own head! I pray God it may! cries Althea, trembling with indignation.
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