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"'P'r'aps Sam would lend us a trifle to go on with, Ginger, ses Peter Russet. 'Just enough to keep body and soul together, so as we can hold out and 'ave the pleasure of sailing with 'im agin. "'P'r'aps he wouldn't, ses Sam, afore Ginger could open his mouth. 'I've just got about enough to last myself; I 'aven't got any to lend.
It was a time of truce, and if only Hubert were as fortunate as he, they might hope to see him within another twelve months. But the months passed on. Autumn deepened into winter. The leaves put on their gayest and rarest garb of russet and gold to die, like vain things, clothed in their best. Winter, far more severe than in these days, bound the earth in its icy grasp. And still he came not.
He gradually gives up his elegant tastes and habits, doffs his poetical and professional suit of black, assumes a russet or rather dusty garb, and enters into the gross enjoyments of common, vulgar birds. He becomes a bon-vivant, a mere gourmand; thinking of nothing but good cheer, and gormandizing on the seeds of the long grasses on which he lately swung, and chaunted so musically.
Burrowing beneath the remaining handkerchiefs in the box she produced a collarlike device of soft russet leather, all hung with fat silver sleigh bells which, being loosely sewed to the fabric by means of twisted wire threads, jingled constantly and busily. The slightest movement set the wires to quivering like antennae and the bells to making music.
"Oh, it came about this way," said he. She, you know, was his little daughter Leah. She was just as sweet as she could be, great big brown eyes and rich russet cheeks, black curls, bright as a new dollar and sharp as a needle. "'O, she iss a big goil now, said my friend Ruby.
You can't think 'ow dull it's been." "Must ha' been," ses Ginger. "I s'pose you've got a taste for prize-fighters, miss," ses Peter Russet. "No," ses Miss Tucker; "I don't think that it's that exactly, but, you see, I couldn't 'ave anybody else. Not for their own sakes." "Why not?" ses Ginger, looking puzzled. "Why not?" ses Miss Tucker. "Why, because o' Bill.
At his youngest he abounded in the furrows and hollows, matching his russet with the russet of the soil and darting to and fro with the quickness of a hare.
This excellent and prudent matron is No. 4,626,243, russet, or, Mistress Vigilance Lynx, to translate her appellation also into the English tongue; and that I am No. 22,817, brown-study color, or, Dr.
Silvia had blue eyes, and hair of the chestnut hue; a simple, white fillet lay above her forehead; her robe was of pale russet, adorned with the usual purple stripes and edged with embroidery; on each hand she wore but one ring. When the visitor entered, she was nursing her child, a boy of four years old, named Gregorius, but at once she put him to sit upon a little stool beside her.
"Pooh!" Walter laughed; "a fig for your lord Mayors! I would a thousand times rather be a simple squire in the following of our young prince." The following morning Walter put on the sober russet dress which he wore on Sundays and holidays, for gay colours were not allowed to the apprentices, and set out for Westminster.
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