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Indeed, the passing vision of a neat unbonneted village girl on her way to the well was attractive enough still to make me rise and go to the window.
As the Lady of Bonville swept by these gentlemen, their murmur of respectful homage, their profound salutation, and unbonneted heads, contrasted forcibly with the slight and grave, if not scornful, obeisance they had just rendered to one of the queen's sisters, who had passed a moment before in the same direction.
Such was the Duke of Rothsay, and heir of the Scottish crown, a sight at once of interest and compassion. All unbonneted and made way for him, while he kept repeating carelessly, "No haste no haste: I shall arrive soon enough at the place I am bound for. How's this a damsel of the joyous science? Ay, by St. Giles! and a comely wench to boot.
At the corner of the lawn, she heard Arthur's voice 'Exactly so; two thousand is the very least. Ha, Violet! as he and Theodora emerged from a shady alley. 'Oh, I did not mean to interrupt you, said Violet, confused; 'I only came out for some fresh air. 'Unbonneted, too, do you want to get roasted brown? said Arthur. 'I never am burnt, said Violet; 'but I will not be in your way, I'll go.
Her unbonneted hair of a rich blonde hue had a golden lustre in the sun; her complexion was of an exquisite whiteness and with a delicate flush; the chiseling of her features was peculiarly fine, in clear, sharp lines she was called "hatchet-faced" by her undiscriminating friends.
'Wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion, and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry' into which he turns his royal patient 'unbonneted.
"Ay, lay them down," the precentor whispered, "but keep your feet on them." Then the minister, who was shaking with excitement, though he did not know it, stretched forth his arms for silence, and it came so suddenly as to frighten the people in the neighboring streets. "If he prays we're done for," cried young Charles Yuill. but even in that hour many of the people were unbonneted.
Up the long avenue of aged oaks which led from the forest to the main entrance of the Chateau Metzengerstein, a steed, bearing an unbonneted and disordered rider, was seen leaping with an impetuosity which outstripped the very Demon of the Tempest. The career of the horseman was indisputably, on his own part, uncontrollable.
And then, to crown all, you go out in all weathers with your heads exposed to the fiercest blasts, all unbonneted; for Webster says a bonnet is a covering for the head; but few are the women's heads we have seen covered this season and then wonder why you should have such terrible colds, such troublesome coughs, such griping pleurisies, such burning fevers, and so many ailments!
But here it is the houseless man, who is thinking of his kindred, his royal family, for whom God has made him responsible, out in this same storm unbonneted; and in the tenderness of that sympathy, in the searching delicacy of that feeling with which he scrutinizes now their case, they seem to him less able than himself to resist its elemental 'tyranny. For in that ideal revolution in that exact turn of the wheel of fortune in that experimental 'change of places, which the Poet recommends to those who occupy the upper ones in, the social structure, as a means of a more particular and practical acquaintance with the conditions of those for whom they legislate, new views of the common natural human relations; new views of the ends of social combinations are perpetually flashing on him; for it is the fallen monarch himself, the late owner and disposer of the Common Weal, it is this strangely philosophic, mysteriously philosophic, king philosophic as that Alfred who was going to succeed him it is the king who is chosen by the Poet as the chief commentator and expounder of that new political and social doctrine which the action of this play is itself suggesting.
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