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"I am ready now," said Rondel with a bow. "Then," said Patsy, "we will start in half an hour. You see, we have wasted two whole days two precious days! I hope Dr. Gys will keep his promise, and that we shall find poor Denton alive on our return."
As she walked slowly away the smile faded before a shadowing recollection. She was wondering if her own manner had truly been so unpardonable on that autumn morning when Robbie had carried her a baked apple with cream on it and plum bread besides. It had certainly been irritating to be interrupted in the middle of that rondel for the sake of which she had skipped Sunday breakfast.
Why, sir, I haven't in the whole of my business six heads like yours, and I go on cutting all the rest week in and week out, just for the pleasure of dressing those six and now there'll only be five. 'It looks like a winding-sheet, mused Rondel presently, after a long silence, broken only by the soft crunch and click of the fatal scissors, as they feasted on the beautiful brown silk.
His ballades are generally thin and scanty of import; for the ballade presented too large a canvas, and he was preoccupied by technical requirements. But in the rondel he has put himself before all competitors by a happy knack and a prevailing distinction of manner.
"Ah, well, it didn't quite come off, did it, Westcott? not quite. Can't hit the nail every time. Now young Rondel in this Precipice of his has done some splendid work. We had him to tea the other day and really he seemed quite a nice unassuming fellow " "Oh! shut up," Bobby growled. "You talk too much, Percival." Peter was growing.
Rondel would as soon have thought of buying a book as of paying for a stall. To the eye of imagination, therefore, there was not an article in the room which did not carry a little trumpet to the distinguished poet's honour and glory.
I hear that that book about an immoral violet, by that new young man Rondel, isn't it? is still having a most enormous success I know that Barratt's got in a whole batch of new copies last night I hear...." Mrs. Launce was disappointed Peter could tell well enough. He received some laudatory reviews, some letters from strangers, some adulation from people who knew nothing whatever.
Indeed, she had, with burning cheek and stormy bosom, recognised herself in many an intimate confession. It was her hair, her face, all her beauty, he sang, though the poems were dedicated to another. She turned to another passage as she stood there 'How pretty it sounds in poetry! she said, and began to read: Here Rondel at last interrupted
I remember well that, at the siege of Retters, there was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.
"Everybody," he writes I translate roughly "everybody should be much inclined to peace, for everybody has a deal to gain by it." Charles made laudable endeavours to acquire English, and even learned to write a rondel in that tongue of quite average mediocrity.
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