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Rossitur thought so, for again tenderly kissing her before she left the room she told Hugh to take off her things and make her feel at home. Hugh upon this made Fleda sit down and proceeded to untie her tippet strings and take off her coat with an air of delicate tenderness which shewed he had great pleasure in his task, and which made Fleda take a good deal of pleasure in it too.
He was as black as coal, as graceful as Apollo, and apparently as powerful as Hercules, if one might judge from the great muscles which stood out prominently on all his limbs, he wore but little clothing merely a pair of short Arab drawers of white cotton, a red fez on his head, and a small tippet on his shoulders.
All the youths seized their weapons; the huge war-drums, the hollowed bole of a tree fringed with Nyare hide, was set up in the middle of the street; preparations for the week of singing and dancing which precedes a campaign were already in hand, and one war-man gave earnest of blood-shed by spearing a goat the property of Mr. Tippet.
Bassett, coolly, "we have got his tippet." COULD any one have looked through the keyhole at Lady Bassett waiting for Reginald, he would have seen, by the very movements of her body, the terrible agitation of the mind.
"Truly, Mother Gundred," I said, "I have no rede of my own, and am minded to take yours." "Then, fool," she said curtly, "link up that tippet of mail across your face, go down to Osric the Sheriff himself, beg to be allowed to fight, and see what he will tell you."
"I don't know about that," said Brady. "There was a woman murdered over on the prairie near Brighton her throat was cut from ear to ear, and " "Shut up," snapped Bradley. "My grandaddy used to live down Coppington wy," said Tippet. "They were a hold ruined castle on a 'ill near by, hand at midnight they used to see pale blue lights through the windows an 'ear "
The little girl laughed at this speech, and Matty, addressing Willie as a "dirty spalpeen," said he had better go with her to a shop first, and she'd then take him back and introduce him to Miss Tippet. "You see I can't let ye in all be yer lone, cushla; for what would the neighbours say, you know!
"Were I to be hanged myself, no other should tie tippet about my craig." "But hear ye," said the Provost Marshal, "this young fellow belongs not to you, and cannot share what you call your privileges." "What we call our privileges, all shall admit to be such," said Cunningham. "We will not hear them questioned!" was the universal cry of the Archers.
She was dressed in her robes of state to receive her kingly guest; the vest fitting high to the throat, where it joined the ermine tippet, and thickly sown with jewels; the sleeves tight, with the second or over sleeves, that, loose and large, hung pendent and sweeping even to the ground; and the gown, velvet of cramousin, trimmed with ermine, made a costume not less graceful than magnificent, and which, where compressed, set off the exquisite symmetry of a form still youthful, and where flowing added majesty to a beauty naturally rather soft and feminine than proud and stately.
He insisted that he was already a dead man, for if the thing didn't come for him during the day he would never live through another night of agonized apprehension, waiting for the frightful end that he was positive was in store for him. "I'll see to that," he said, and they all knew that Tippet meant to take his own life before darkness set in.
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