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Every here and there a ruddy patch in the road showed where tile or chimney-pot had been swept off and dashed to pieces. The sign at the village inn had been torn from its hinges, and farther on Tom came upon the Vicar examining the great gilt weather-cock on the little spire at the top of the big square, ivy-clad tower.
"And he was right," said I, laughing. Then Jack declared the weather was sorry enough to account for my notion. I made answer, as I remember, that I was not subject to the rule of the weather-cock, like some fellows I knew, nor to thinking I was going to be shot. This shut up Jack for a while, and we got off on to our own wise plans for capturing Sir Henry and all his host.
He's a nice man, and you can't expect him to be pleased at our marriage." "Perhaps," said Hope in an icy tone, "you would like him to be the bridegroom. If so, there is still time." "Silly boy!" She took his arm. "As I have been bought, you know that I can't run away from my purchaser." "You denied being bought just now. It seems to me, Lucy, that I am to marry a weather-cock."
B, and very difficult their readers found it to interest themselves in the fortunes and misfortunes of an initial: It was in the summer of the year 18 , and the sun was setting behind the low western hills beneath which stands the town of C; its dying gleams glistened on the weather-cock of the little church, beneath whose tower two figures were standing, so deep in shadow that little more could be made out concerning them save that they were young persons of the opposite sex.
'Well, he said, 'here you are. 'Well, returned Otto, 'we made a revolution, I believe. 'It is what I fear, returned the Doctor. 'How? said Otto. 'Fear? Fear is the burnt child. I have learned my strength and the weakness of the others; and I now mean to govern. Gotthold said nothing, but he looked down and smoothed his chin. 'You disapprove? cried Otto. 'You are a weather-cock.
I expect he knows where to find the key." Mr. Rose's hands fell limply by his side and his tongue, turning prudish, refused its office. He turned and stared at Mr. Hogg in silent consternation. "Never known him to be beaten yet," said that admiring weather-cock. "Ned's been away three days," said the shoemaker, "but I expect him home soon." Mr.
There, I will not tease you. Guess again." "You are pleased to remain here because you are a true weather-cock because you like one thing one day another the next because the country peace and quiet is soothing to you after the folly and noise of the great world of Bath and Dublin, and reminds you refreshingly, as it does me, of our happy convent days."
A Mexican who was crossing the street from the Blue Front grocery carrying in his hand a bottle of kerosene, was stimulated to a sudden and admirable burst of speed, still grasping the neck of the shattered bottle. The new gilt weather-cock on Judge Riley's lemon and ultramarine two-story residence shivered, flapped, and hung by a splinter, the sport of the wanton breezes.
Ramiro recovered and sitting up, for to his feet he could not rise because of the sword strap, in his hand a thin, deadly-looking knife. "Habet!" he said with a short laugh, "habes, Weather-cock!" and he turned the knife against himself. But Martin was on him, and in five more seconds he lay trussed like a fowl in the bottom of the boat.
'A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still. Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed. They left the high-road by a well-remembered lane and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weather-cock surmounted cupola on the roof, and a bell hanging in it.
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