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Moreover, I have since deemed that her passion of faith in the Maid made war on her love for me; one breast being scantly great enough to contain these two affections, and her pride taking, against the natural love, the part of the love which was divine.
"Behind her was a dim room scantly illumined by the one small candle that had guided us through the storm; but the old Waterloo stove was colouring the gloom with tremulous, rose-red whorls of light, and warm and cosy indeed seemed Peg's retreat to us snow-covered, frost-chilled, benighted wanderers. "Gracious goodness, where did yez all come from?" exclaimed Peg. "Did they turn yez out?"
Psyches had scantly finished her tale but her sister pierced with the pricke of carnall desire and wicked envy ran home, and feigning to her husband that she had heard word of the death of her parents tooke shipping and came to the mountaine.
Howbeit the wayes were unknown to me, and thereupon I tooke up my packet, unlocked and unbarred the doors, but those good and faithfull doores which in the night did open of their owne accord, could then scantly be opened with their keyes. And when I was out I cried, O sirrah Hostler where art thou? Open the stable doore for I will ride away by and by. What meane you to rise at this time of night?
We have left them from the work of their hands enough, scantly enough, to keep breath within their stunted bodies. "All the traffic can bear!" a brazen rule. Of such sage policy the result can be seen in the wizened and undersized submerged of London; of nearer than London. Man, by not taking thought, has taken a cubit from his stature.
His tone, however, made poor Overt himself feel for the moment scantly so. "And the gentlemen?" Overt went on. "Well, sir, one of them's General Fancourt." "Ah yes, I know; thank you." General Fancourt was distinguished, there was no doubt of that, for something he had done, or perhaps even hadn't done the young man couldn't remember which some years before in India.
They were big and handsome, oval, with the richest crimson cheeks, but nothing like so sweet as the white ones. So sugar, or honey, was added scantly, at the end of the boiling down. If it had been put in earlier, it would have added to the danger of burning. A six-gallon crock of peach butter was no mean household asset indeed it ranked next to the crock of blackberry jam.
Matters fell out otherwise; but, had the King entered Gowrie House early, and scantly attended, he might have been conveyed across Fife, disguised, in the train of Gowrie as he went to Dirleton. Thence he might be conveyed by sea to Fastcastle, the impregnable eyrie of Gowrie's and Bothwell's old ally, the reckless intriguer, Logan of Restalrig.
'There'll be no stopping him, Carling said, and he slipped to the rear. At this juncture, Armandine's mellow bell proclaimed her readiness. Victor rubbed the back of his head. Nataly asked him: 'Dear, is it that man? He nodded scantly: 'Expected, expected. I think we have our summons from Armandine. One moment poor soul! poor soul! Lady Carmine Sir Abraham Quatley. Will you lead?
But it struck her that the comparison of "a fortune dropped from the clouds" was a singularly happy one. "Lack-a-daisy!" cried Dorothy. "The Friar must have told some merry tale belike. Prithee, give us the same, Agnes." "Methinks it were scantly so merry for you, Mistress Doll," answered Agnes rather keenly. The stranger must not intermeddle with her joy.
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