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This day twelvemonth you must meet here again, and to all this you must pledge your troth, if God give you your lives to return." "You speak well," said Marhaus. "Adventures we seek, and no true knight-errant hesitates before the unknown and the dangerous. We shall do as you say, each of us choose one of you, and then, whatsoever fortune wills, let it come."
"Well, I did so, and troth I thought there was somethin' over me when I did it; but what 'ud you think? out starts a white hare, and off went Sambo and Snail after her, full butt. I have seen many a hard run, but the likes o' that I never seen. If they turned her wanst they turned her more than a dozen times; but where do you think she escaped to at last?" "The Lord knows, Barney; where?"
"Thank Heaven for a timely rescue!" they heard a voice say in the English tongue; "for by my troth, good Malcolm, I had thought that thou and I would not live to tell this tale to others. But where are our good friends and rescuers? Verily, I have seen nothing, yet there must have been a good dozen or more.
Margaret, the elder, was already being wooed by Sir Thomas Stanley, and some gossips even went so far as to say that she had already plighted her troth to him. The younger sister, however, had kept her heart intact, and in spite of the persuasions of Sir George and the threats of Lady Maude, had refused to comply with their request to accept Sir Henry de la Zouch as her betrothed.
Why do you want to ask a fellow such a question? Haven't I bought more than this of you before?" "Troth an' ye have, dear; but not in this way, I'm thinkin'," she answered. "It's all right. Do let me go, Missis Barry!" cried he, vexed and beginning to feel decidedly frightened. "Hi, Tom, come on!" called Ed Brown, emerging from the area.
The next morning he rode away with his dispatches, but on his return he paused at the White House, the home of Mrs. Custis, and then and there plighted his troth with the charming widow. The wooing was brief and decisive, and the successful lover departed for the camp, to feel more keenly than ever the delays of the British officers and the shortcomings of the colonial government.
Your next step on this sinful road may make retreat impossible. Break off this marriage at once. Better the broken troth better the nine days' wonder than the perjured bride, and the loveless, sinful nuptials! You said you were ambitious.
Come, Madge, hinny," addressing her, "we'll no be in time to see Nichol and his wife, unless ye show us the road." "In troth and that I will, Ratton," said she, seizing him by the arm, and resuming her route with huge strides, considering it was a female who took them.
'Troth, he's nae nice body, and he'll just tak onything, but most readily cattle, horse, or live Christians; for sheep are slow of travel, and inside plenishing is cumbrous to carry, and not easy to put away for siller in this country. 'But does he carry off men and women? 'Out, ay. Did not ye hear him speak o' the Perth bailie?
"What place so fitted where to pledge our troth, my Lilla, as by my mother's resting-place?" said Edward. "Would that she could look upon us now and smile her blessing." Happily indeed flew those evening hours unheeded by the young lovers.
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