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Updated: May 22, 2025
She drew the packet from her bosom, unlaced the thong, unrolled the deer-hide covering. "Here is a roll of bark," she said. "This I have never had interpreted. Can you read it for me, Euan?" And there in the lantern light I read it, while she looked down over my shoulder. "Aesa-yat-yen-enghdon, Lois! "Jatthon-ten-yonk, Lois! For a long time I gazed at the writing in shocked silence.
And then, when I was unlaced, I fainted." "Did you go right off?" "Oh! dear no, not the least." "Well?" "Well, I was obliged to remain unconscious for nearly an hour, as he could find no means of bringing me round. But I was very patient, and did not open my eyes." "Oh! Andrée!... And what did you say to him?" "I? Nothing at all! How was I to know anything, as I was unconscious?
"Better let me go along," said Joe, his hands formed into a speaking-trumpet. "No need. I'll make it." "Look out for back-tow!" The other nodded. He had pulled off his coat and unlaced his shoes and now he dropped these things through the forward hatch and wrapped the big rope around his waist. "Better not try to swim with your coats, fellows," he instructed. "Nor shoes. Don't take any chances.
On the impulse of the moment she unlaced her blue wool skirt, dropped it around her feet, stepped from it; unbuckled both garters, stripped slippers and stockings from her feet, and waded out into the pool.
While he lay thus unconscious the Virgin descended from the altar, unlaced his armour, and donned it herself. Then taking sword and shield and lance, she mounted his steed and rode into Darmstadt. She was absent for some time, but when she returned the knight still lay in the death-like state in which she had left him.
She did it, kneeling at his knees or standing before him. For once he was that delight of a woman in love, her plaything, her toy her baby, in a word. She girdled him with her arms at need; her fingers busy at neck or cheek-pieces unlaced the helm. "Now kneel." He obeyed her, and she grew tenderly deft over his wounds. She washed them clean, bound them up with strips torn from her skirt.
By these it was forbidden to wound the horse, or to use the point of the sword, or to strike a knight after he had raised his vizor, or unlaced his helmet. The ladies encouraged their knights in these exercises; they bestowed prizes, and the conqueror's feats were the theme of romance and song.
The giant sprang forward to despatch him, and for that purpose unlaced his helmet, when Rogero, with dismay, recognized the face of Bradamante. He cried aloud, "Hold, miscreant!" and sprang forward with drawn sword. Whereupon the giant, as if he cared not to enter upon another combat, lifted Bradamante on his shoulders, and ran with her into the forest.
And she noticed things she had not noticed for years when she was doing her hair in front of the glass she noticed it, and thought, "Why, what pretty stuff." For years she had forgotten she had such a thing as hair, plaiting it in the evening and unplaiting it in the morning with the same hurry and indifference with which she laced and unlaced her shoes.
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