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Donnel, having left his son cracking a long whip which he held in his hand, and looking occasionally at the tress of Mave Sullivan's beautiful hair, approached the hall door, at which he knocked, and on the appearance of a servant, requested to see Mr. Henderson. The man waived his hand towards the space under the window, meaning that he should take his stand there, and added
There are pipes in my collection which I should as soon think of smoking as I should of eating. Ask a china maniac to let you have afternoon tea out of his Old Chelsea, and you will learn some home truths as to the durability of human friendships. The glory of the pipe, as Tress had suggested, lay in its carving.
Dashing the blood from his eyes, he hurled it with all his dying strength, not at Hugh, but at Red Eve. Past her ear it hissed, severing a little tress of her long hair, which floated down on to the snow. Then Acour threw his arms wide and fell backward fell backward and vanished in the grave. Dick ran to look. There he lay dead, pierced through back and bosom by the point of his own sword.
She paused as she joined a long tress of wool at the spindle. "Is it anything about father?" "Yes, it's about father, and all of us." "I know," said Dorothy, with a sigh. "He's going away again!" "Yes, dear. He feels that he is called. It is a time of trouble and contention everywhere: 'the harvest, truly, 'is plenteous, but the laborers are few."
"Leave go of the maid, sir," he said in a low, fierce voice, "or, by God! I'll make you." "Leave go of the maid?" gasped Sir John. "Why, who holds her tightest, you or I? Do you leave go of her." "Yes, yes, Christopher," she whispered, "ere I am pulled in two." Then he obeyed, lifting her into the chair, but her father still kept his hold of the brown tress.
The young men rest on their scythes, that glisten like Turkish sabres, and, from under their broad-brimmed hats of straw, the town girls smile, as they tress garlands of garish flowers to bind the last and the largest of the sheaves. In autumn, there is the season of the harvest with its traditional ceremonies of a religious or convivial nature.
A straight course would have saved at least two miles and avoided the strength of the tide; but, though my boat drew only three inches, and there was water enough and to spare on the flats, the sea-weed, growing thick as grain in the harvest-field, and half floating where the depth was three or four feet, collecting round the sharp bow as a long tress of hay gathers round a tooth of a rake, and burying the oar-blade, impeded all progress, and obliged me to pull almost double the distance against the rapid tide-set of the circuitous channels.
"I will send him a lock of that," she said; and kneeling reverently by the old green trunk, the shrine where she nightly said her prayers, she separated from the mass of rich, brown hair, one long, shining tress, which she inclosed within her letter, adding, in a postscript, "It is mother's hair, and Dora's tears have often fallen upon it. 'Tis all I have to give." Poor little Dora!
In another masterpiece the genius of Callimachus followed the stolen tress of Queen Berenice to the skies, where the locks became a constellation. A contemporary of Callimachus was Zenodotus, the critic, who was for improving the Iliad and Odyssey by cutting out all the epic commonplaces which seemed to him to be needless repetitions.
Migwan and Gladys, on the other hand, remembering their own early "crushes," managed not to smile at Bengal's sentimental foolishness about the lock of hair, and Gladys gravely gave her a hand-painted envelope to keep the precious tress in.
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