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A roar of laughter followed the reiteration of the insult; and in less than two minutes thrice fifty unwashed blackguards were roaring with all the force of their lungs, "Ah-h-h Go home, you rope-dancer!" Not slow to see the moaning of the words, the unabashed lawyer, who in his life had been a dramatic actor, replied with his accustomed readiness and effrontery.
No harm to him, lady; but to you obeying him, destruction, death!" Molly stared. Her breath came hollow from her mouth. "Death, Grifone?" she faltered, and then pored over his face again. He nodded his words into her. "Death, Madonnina." The girl tottered to her feet had to balance like a rope-dancer to keep upon them. "But then but then O Saviour!" She threw her arms up.
His majesty had frequently expostulated with the countess upon this subject: but his expostulations were never attended to; it was in one of these differences that he, advising her rather to bestow her favours upon Jacob Hall, the rope-dancer, who was able to return them, than lavish away her money upon Jermyn to no purpose, since it would be more honourable for her to pass for the mistress of the first, than for the very humble servant of the other, she was not proof against his raillery.
"Faith, an' if you wor a priest, Dandy, you'd never die with your face to the congregation. You'll be a rope-dancer yourself yet; only this, Dandy, that you'll be undher the rope instead of over it, so good night." "Rouser," exclaimed the other. "Rousin Redhead!" "Go home," replied the Rouser.
With an easy play of wrist and elbow, he caused the yawl to glide ahead like some indolent marine animal swimming through its element, and as he stood, firm as a planted statue, with a foot on each gunwale, there was much of that confidence created by his steadiness, that one acquires by viewing the repeated and successful efforts of a skilful rope-dancer.
He had observed that the circus riders, instead of a saddle, used upon the backs of their horses a sort of flat pad, which afforded a much more convenient footing than any saddle; and as to standing on the naked back of a horse, it was manifestly impossible for any body but a rope-dancer.
It is rather serviceable than showy suitable for the winter weather. 'Good, said Johns. 'Serviceable is a wise word in a bridegroom. I commend ye, Charles. 'For, said Darton, 'why should a woman dress up like a rope-dancer because she's going to do the most solemn deed of her life except dying? 'Faith, why? But she will, because she will, I suppose, said Dairyman Johns. 'H'm, said Darton.
When Zarathustra came into the next city, which lay beside the forest, he found in that place much people gathered together in the market; for they had been called that they should see a rope-dancer. And Zarathustra spoke thus unto the people: "I teach ye the Over-man. The man is something who shall be overcome. What have ye done to overcome him?
These words fell, with the winning earnestness peculiar to him, from the lips of the young man who, at a time when he cared for no other woman than his new-made bride, had seen in the poor, endangered rope-dancer a human being worthy of aid. Only his fiery dark eyes met the professor's sternly enough.
'A delightfully humorous tale of a converted and rehabilitated rope-dancer. Glasgow Herald. 'The ingenuity of the idea, the skill with which it is worked out, and the sustained humour of its situations, make it after its own manner a veritable little masterpiece. Westminster Gazette. 'A budget of good fiction of which no one will tire. Scotsman.
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