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Upon this low shore line, which lies blinking in the midday sun, the waves of history have beaten for two centuries and a half, and romance has had time to grow there. Out of any of these coves might have sailed Sir Patrick Spens "to Noroway, to Noroway," "They hadna sailed upon the sea A day but barely three, Till loud and boisterous grew the wind, And gurly grew the sea."
She took the lawyer's letter from the squire's shaking old fingers, and opened it. Then her face became very pale, and as her eyes glanced rapidly over the contents, she could not help uttering a stifled exclamation. "Yes, no wonder you're in a rage," said the squire. "The impudence of that letter beats everything." "But what does Mr. Spens mean?" said Frances.
"Come away," Whamond said, impatiently; "but Spens answered, "No till I've offered up a prayer for the promise that's in that drap. Peter Tosh, you've forgotten to take off your bonnet." "Think twice, John Spens," gasped Tosh, "afore you pray for rain this nicht."
Hendry gave an appealing look to Tosh and Spens, but the precentor's solemnity had cowed them. "They say, then," he answered sullenly, "that it's the Egyptian. Yes, and I believe they ken." The two farmers drew back from this statement incredulously; but Tammas Whamond jumped at the kirk officer's throat, and some who were in the church that night say they heard Hendry scream.
Dishart just drops in to the kirk some day, accidental-like, and offers up a bit prayer?" "As for the rain," Spens said, triumphantly, "I wouldna wonder though it's here afore the minister. You canna deny, Peter Tosh, that there's been a smell o' rain in the air this twa hours back." "John," Peter said agitatedly, "dinna speak so confidently.
"Oh, you have come from your father; yes, I was afraid that letter would be a blow to him; still, I see no way out of it I really don't!" "I have never liked you much, Mr. Spens," said Frances Kane. "I have mistrusted you, and been afraid of you; but I will reverse all my former opinions all now, if you will only tell me the exact truth with regard to my father's affairs."
With this same weapon, the same inflexible champion of Scottish honour and nobility slew at one blow Spens of Kilspindie, a courtier of your grandfather, James the fourth, who had dared to speak lightly of him in the royal presence.
From the King's Quair and the poems of Henryson, Dunbar, and Gawain Douglas, select passages that show first-hand intimacy with nature. Compare these with lines from any poet whose knowledge of nature seems to you to be acquired from books. Ballads. Ward. I., passim, contains among others three excellent ballads, Sir Patrick Spens, The Twa Corbies, Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow's Three Sons.
It's as sweer to clang past the quarter as a horse to gallop by its stable." "You could gang to your box and gie out a psalm, Tammas," suggested John Spens. "And would a psalm sung wi' sic an object," retorted the precentor, "mount higher, think you, than a bairn's kite? I'll insult the Almighty to screen no minister."
Is nobody to be thought of but him? Why should Frances make all her days wretched on his account? Why should Frances give up the man she is so fond of, just to give him a little more comfort and luxuries that he doesn't want? Look here, Mr. Spens, it is wrong it must not be! I won't have it!" Mr. Spens could not help smiling. "You are very eager and emphatic," he said.
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