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Updated: October 4, 2025
Well, let us hasten homeward; and as we go forget not to thank Heaven, my Annie, that after wandering a little way into the world you may return at the first summons with an untainted and unwearied heart, and be a happy child again. But I have gone too far astray for the town-crier to call me back. Sweet has been the charm of childhood on my spirit throughout my ramble with little Annie.
Here the town-crier came forward, and said he had for the last twenty years cried everything the government wished to be made known in the town, free of cost, and he would now go round and cry for the benefit of the school.
Second: This arrangement is indispensable for common safety's sake; for were the lower end of the line in any way attached to the boat, and were the whale then to run the line out to the end almost in a single, smoking minute as he sometimes does, he would not stop there, for the doomed boat would infallibly be dragged down after him into the profundity of the sea; and in that case no town-crier would ever find her again.
We jumped into the victoria, but as we crossed the square the garde-champetre caught the bridle and stopped our turnout. "One moment, Monsieur." Then the town-crier appeared, instantly causing the staggering groups to cluster into one. He had no need to ring his bell.
This "whipping" the unromantic author considers not at all derogatory to the character of a kind husband, for he adds "The Indian husband is rarely harsh to his wife, and the devotion of the wife to her husband is always a subject of remark." Some have made it a grave question whether marriages should not be made by the magistrate, and be proclaimed by the town-crier.
He was, besides, the town-crier, who went about with a drum at certain hours of the morning and evening, like a perambulating clock, and also made public announcements of sales, losses, &c.; for the rest a fierce, fighting fellow when in anger or in drink, which latter included the former. 'What's the sicht, Sandy? asked Robert, coming up with his hands in the pockets of his trowsers.
Then he came back to his seat and fixed his eyes on the perturbed face of the young man. 'Does your father know that you are back? he asked. 'No one knows that I am here save Mrs Pansey. 'Then it won't be a secret long, said Graham, drily; 'that old magpie is as good as the town-crier. You left your mother well? 'Quite well; and Lucy also. I made an excuse to come back.
As for having it publicly claimed by Jean Mistrol, the town-crier, no, it would not do. It were better to lose the wig than to advertise himself thus, as he had the honour to be the first magistrate of Quiquendone. The worthy Van Tricasse was reflecting upon this, extended beneath his sheets, with bruised body, heavy head, furred tongue, and burning breast.
Virtually the town-crier is at the present moment proclaiming to the inhabitants of this city: 'We want that man, but we already have his wife, see to it, citizens, that she does not escape! for if she do, we shall summarily shoot the breadwinner in every family in the town!" A cry of horror escaped Marguerite's parched lips.
If my scheme gets wind, do you suppose some one will not clap on sail to be before me? You frighten me out of my senses. Promise me faithfully to be silent as the grave." "I should like to hear Trevanion's opinion too." "As well hear the town-crier! Sir, I have trusted to your honor. Sir, at the domestic hearth all secrets are sacred. Sir, I " "My dear Uncle Jack, you have said quite enough.
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