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In The Lady Mother we find the same ornaments spread out before us, many of them very tawdry at their best. Glapthorne's editor has striven to show that the weak-kneed playwright was a fellow-pupil of John Milton's at St. Paul's. One cannot think of the two names together without calling to mind the "lean and flashy songs" and "scrannel pipes of wretched straw" in Lycidas.
By a swift and daring march, the Spanish general, Canterac, had thrown his army against them with startling suddenness. They tried to retreat, but, being attacked in the night, were cut to pieces, and an enormous quantity of stores passed into the hands of the Royalists. The news cast a gloom over the city, and many weak-kneed Patriots lost their heads entirely.
Though a man profess that he will never marry, experience has shown that his resolve is often subject to reconsideration. But with unmarrying women the case is different, and unmarried for the most part they remain, for man is often so weak-kneed a creature in matters of the heart, that he refrains from pursuing where an unsympathetic attitude discourages pursuit.
Such was the weak-kneed husband to whom was now allied the most precocious, headstrong young woman in all France; who, although still short of her sixteenth birthday, was a past-mistress of the arts of pleasure, and was now determined to have her full fling at any cost.
Out of the material offered there was not the making of one side of a man. Two of them were creatures of the opposing gambling factions, the other a weak-kneed fellow with the pale eyes of a coward, put forward by the conservative business men who deplored much shooting in the name of the law. How they were to get on without much shooting, Judge Thayer did not understand. Not a bit of it.
If I'd had to go to America it wouldn't have been so bad." At this weak-kneed confession the Baron could hardly withhold an exclamation of contempt, but Essington, with more sympathy, inquired "What do you propose to do, then?" His lordship emptied his glass. "I wish I had your brains and your way of carrying things off, Essington!" he said, with a sigh.
Jinnie blanched in fright. "My uncle!" she exclaimed, growing weak-kneed. "No such thing," snapped Peg. "You're goin' to a fine school an' learn how to be a elegant young lady." "Who said so?" flashed Jinnie. "Mr. King," cut in Lafe. Then Jinnie understood, and she laughed hysterically.
My wits seem somehow gone, an' I don't guess as you'll ever forgive me. Ther's only one way I ken help you, little gal. 'Tain't right. 'Tain't honest, I know, but I guess I'm weak-kneed 'bout things now. I love you that bad I jest want to marry you. Guess I've loved you right along. I loved you when I picked you up in these arms nigh seven years ago.
In the end I didn't really want to come at all wanted to lie down and die, but hadn't the strength of mind to insist. I'd been in London a week before I wrote you just drifting round too weak-kneed to take the first step. I tore up that idiotic note three times." "Well, as long as you posted the fourth effort," Stonehouse said, "it's all right."
"I knocked," she explained apologetically to the Boarder, "but no one heard me. Are the family all away?" "They are in the woodshed. Walk right out," he urged hospitably. Colette stepped to the door and, on opening it, gazed in bewilderment at the disrobing choir. "These are not St. Mark's choir-boys, are they?" she asked wonderingly. Mrs. Jenkins felt herself growing weak-kneed.
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