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And the Pope sent to ask of him the daughter of Count Remon; and she was then five months gone with child; and by the advice of his vassal the Cid the King sent her, and sent to tell the Pope the whole truth, requesting that he would see she was taken care of; and the Pope ordered that she should be taken care of till the event should be.
Down to recent times his face might not be seen even by his own subjects, and if circumstances obliged him to communicate with them he did so through a screen which hid him from view. The other or Remon branch of the Ijebu tribe is governed by a chief, who ranks below the Awujale. Mr.
"Lord Remon came this afternoon," said Lady Drogheda, and with averted eyes. "I do not approve of Remon," he announced. "Nay, madam, even a Siren ought to spare her kin and show some mercy toward the more stagnant-blooded fish." And Lady Drogheda shrugged. "He is very wealthy, and I am lamentably poor.
These arbiters of social London did not speak at all; and the bleak waters crowded toward them as in a fretful dispute of precedence. Then the woman said: "Last night Lord Remon asked me to marry him, and I declined the honor. For this place is too like Bessington and, I think, the past month has changed everything " "I thought you had forgotten Bessington," he said, "long, long ago."
In the province of Lagos, the Ijebu tribe of the Yoruba race is divided into two branches, which are known respectively as the Ijebu Ode and the Ijebu Remon. The Ode branch of the tribe is ruled by a chief who bears the title of Awujale and is surrounded by a great deal of mystery.
Wycherley, since incommunicably it tickled his vanity. He was chuckling when he came to the open window. Within a woman was singing, to the tinkling accompaniment of a spinet, for the delectation of Lord Remon. She was not uncomely, and the hard, lean, stingy countenance of the attendant nobleman was almost genial.
I am bound even in honor now to marry Mistress Araminta; and you would marry Remon in the end, Olivia, ah, yes! for we are merely moths, my dear, and luxury is a disastrously brilliant lamp. But here are only you and I and the master of all ceremony. And yet I would we were a little worthier, Olivia!"
XXIII. Then Count Remon, Lord of Savoy, with the power of the King of France, gathered together twenty thousand knights and came beyond Tolosa, to hold the road against King Don Ferrando.
For it was the voice of another Olivia, who was not a fine and urban lady, and who lived nowhere any longer; it was the voice of a soft-handed, tender, jeering girl, whom he alone remembered; and a sick, illimitable rage grilled in each vein of him as liltingly she sang, for Remon, the old and foolish song which Wycherley had made in her praise very long ago, and of which he might not ever forget the most trivial word.
Oak's eyes could not forsake them; and in en- deavouring to continue his shearing at the same time that he watched Boldwood's manner, he snipped the sheep in the groin. The animal plunged; Bathsheba instantly gazed towards it, and saw the blood. "O, Gabriel!" she exclaimed, with severe remon- strance you who are so strict with the other men see what you are doing yourself!"
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