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So he is off to the Spittal to ask me to give you back to him." "To compel you," corrected Babbie. "Pooh!" said the earl nervously, "that was but mummery on the hill." "It was a marriage." "With gypsies for witnesses. Their word would count for less than nothing. Babbie, I am still in time to save you." "I don't want to be saved. The marriage had witnesses no court could discredit."
A boy grew up in one of the brisk little ports that lay between Wivenhoe and Spittal. The notion of inland life had no place in his mind, for his thoughts in early years suffered a sea change. He played on the quay, and heard the growling talk of the lounging, bearded sailors; so that he soon became critical in the matter of ships and seamanship.
Harper's, who told me how Monk had this day clapt up many of the Common-council, and that the Parliament had voted that he should pull down their gates and portcullisses, their posts and their chains, which he do intend to do, and do lie in the City all night. PER ANNUM, that was to be paid to a poor Spittal which was given by some of his predecessors; and given on his side. 10th. Mr.
The other, though so much older and smaller, seemed to be composed entirely of fibres of steel, and, in his murderous endeavors, put forth a strength so extraordinary that for a moment our hero felt his heart melt within him with terror for his life. The spittal appeared to dry up within his mouth, and his hair to creep and rise upon his head.
"That may be," he answered gravely, "but it is of the present I must think just now. Mr. Ogilvy, what assurance have I, while lying here helpless, that the marriage at the Spittal is not going on?" "None, I hope," I said to myself, and listened longingly for the cannon. But to him I only pointed out that no woman need go through a form of marriage against her will.
"I shall be back at the Spittal without any one's knowing of my absence, and when I begin to tell him of you, he will tremble, lest it means my refusal to marry him; when he knows it does not, he will wonder only why I told him anything." "He will ask you to take time " "No, he will ask me to put on my wedding-dress. You must not think anything else possible." "So be it, then," Gavin said firmly.
I turned my face from Jean. "Jean," said some one, opening the inner kitchen door, "why did you ?" She stopped, and that was what turned me round. As she spoke I thought it was the young lady; when I looked I saw it was Babbie, though no longer in a gypsy's dress. Then I knew that the young lady and Babbie were one. How had the Egyptian been spirited here from the Spittal?
Sion College is situated against London Wall, a little to the eastward of Cripplegate, where anciently stood a nunnery, and afterwards a hospital founded for a hundred blind men, anno 1320, by W. Elsing, mercer, and called Elsing's Spittal: he afterwards founded here a priory for canons regular, which being surrendered to King Henry VIII. anno 1530, it was purchased by Dr.
She was a slight, pretty woman of nearly forty, and liked Tommy because he remembered so vividly her coming to the Spittal as a bride. He even remembered how she had been dressed her white bonnet, for instance. "For long," Tommy said, musing, "I resented other women in white bonnets; it seemed profanation." "How absurd!" she told him, laughing. "You must have been quite a small boy at the time."
But may my right hand wither, and may my tongue be cancer-bitten, and may my mind be gone into a dry rot, before I forget what he did for me and mine that day! To this day we argue in the glen about the sound mistaken by many of us for the firing of the Spittal cannon, some calling it thunder and others the tearing of trees in the torrent.
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