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"Even so, madam; but they still count all they either could have had or hoped for, nought in comparison with their love to one another." "After ten years! Ha! They are no subjects for this real world of ours; are they not rather swains in my poor Philip Sidney's Arcadia? Ho, no; 'twere pity to meddle with them. Leave them to their Dutch household and their carracks.
The fireplaces, worthy of the wide-throated central chimney, were bordered by pictured tiles, some of them with Scripture stories, some with Watteau-like figures, tall damsels in slim waists and with spread enough of skirt for a modern ballroom, with bowing, reclining, or musical swains of what everybody calls the "conventional" sort, that is, the swain adapted to genteel society rather than to a literal sheep-compelling existence.
'Nay, Bow-may, said another of the swains, 'since here is a new man, now is the time to talk to him. Said the huntress: ''Tis thine hands that talk best, Wood-wont; it is not they that shall bring thee to shame. Spake the third: 'What have we to do with shame here, far away from dooms and doomers, and elders, and wardens, and guarded castles?
The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighbourhood; being considered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
Nor had the village swains any better success; whenever Puck chose to play his freaks in the brewing copper, the ale was sure to be spoiled.
Not counting our household of three, there are now seventy-two people on the island thirteen men, the eldest being forty-nine; twenty women, the eldest about eighty; and thirty-nine children. There are four families of Swains, not including old Caroline Swain, the invalid; three of Greens, not including the bachelor Bill Green; and two of Rogers. Mrs.
Now it was late at night by then they reached Burgstead, so laden as they were with the dead beasts; but they heeded the night little, for the moon was well-nigh as bright as day for them. But when they came to the gate of the Thorp, there were assembled the goodmen and swains to meet them with torches and wine in their honour.
For when he, Carteret, and Charles Verity, strolling in all innocence along the shore path back from St. Augustin, had to their infinite astonishment met her and her attendant swains face to face, she hadn't turned a hair. Her nerve was invincible. After clasping the hand of each in turn with the prettiest enthusiasm, she had introduced "My husband, General Frayling Mr.
Warmth and fragrance, sunshine and roses, strawberries, straw hats, summer costumes, music and moonlight, soft zephyrs, softer speeches, softest of swains have we left at the Point. Farewells sweet, sad, sentimental some of them have been said. The corps of cadets has gone to the Centennial with thousands of sight-seers from all over the nation.
Lesser beings had to push and jostle through the throng, but he had a long lane sacred to his own footsteps, and no matter what new attraction appeared, he always had his following of gaping admirers. Young ladies, with their attendant swains, in holiday attire, wandered about arm in arm, eating peanuts.
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