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Then she peeped out to make sure that the coast was clear not that she was not quite free to go where she pleased, but she dreaded eyes and titters out at the door, to the corner of the lane where for many a Sunday afternoon there had been a quiet tryste and walk. Her heart beat so as almost to choke her, and she hardly durst raise her eyes to see if the accustomed figure awaited her.
Your Cromwell's gane, an' all traitors shall tryste wi' the hangman." It was clear that whatever the mystery pertaining to the Scotchman, Simeon Stagg seemed to possess some knowledge of it. Not that he ever explained anything. His anxiety to avoid all questions about his lodger was sufficiently obvious.
She blamed herself for having ventured out; yet could she have foreseen this? No; for she had confidently trusted in his keeping his appointment. She had never known him to fail before. What could have caused the failure now? Had he kept his tryste they would now have been safely housed at Old Field Cottage.
"You walk late, sir," said I, as we met a second time. "I bide tryste," was the reply; "and so I think do you, Mr. Osbaldistone." "You are then the person who requested to meet me here at this unusual hour?" "I am," he replied. "Follow me, and you shall know my reasons." "Before following you, I must know your name and purpose," I answered.
Poor Sophy, to her that tryste had been a subject of unmitigated affliction and shame, and it was a cruel wound that Ulick O'More should, of all men, have turned it into ridicule. What would be the effect on her? In process of time Mr. Kendal returned. 'Albinia, he said, 'this is a most unfortunate affair.
"Adzooks!" exclaimed the bailiff "sure Harry Wakefield, the nattiest lad at Whitson Tryste, Wooler Fair, Carlisle Sands, or Stagshaw Bank, is not going to show white feather? Ah, this comes of living so long with kilts and bonnets men forget the use of their daddies." "I may teach you, Master Fleecebumpkin, that I have not lost the use of mine," said Wakefield, and then went on.
"Ay, but I was only making fashion before," replied Andrew; "but it's come on me in sair earnest now Lose or win, I daur gae nae farther wi' your honour; and if ye'll tak my foolish advice, ye'll bide by a broken tryste, rather than gang forward yoursell.
In the dim light the coat-of-arms gleamed like jewels in an amber setting, and the heart in the crest, the heart out of which rose a mailed hand grasping a spear, was like a great ruby. "I keep the tryste," whispered Mary, reading the motto of the scroll underneath. "No wonder Madam Chartley grew up to be so patrician. Anybody might with a window like that in the house."
On the contrary, they opened wide in a bold, derisive stare, until she was recalled by the questions of the examiner. "Witness! Do you mean to say, upon your oath, that you went to Castle Lone at midnight to meet the Marquis of Arondelle?" "Aye, that I do. I went to the castle to keep tryste wi' his lairdship, the Marquis of Arondelle. He wha was troth-plighted to the heiress o' Lone.
It may be you may forgather with your friend, Sir Mungo Malagrowther, for I purpose to ask his worship; so, be sure and bide tryste, Davie." "That will I I will be true as a chronometer," said Ramsay. "I will not trust you, though," replied Heriot.
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