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Updated: May 11, 2025
"There will be no great gathering to-night, Staneholme; no shots or cheers; no lunt in the blue sky; only doubt and amaze about an old man and wife: but there will be two happy hearts that were heavy as stane before. Well-a-day! to think I should be fain to return this way!"
I entered, accordingly, upon what I thought a very promising course of appalling reading; but, alack and well-a-day! a change has come over me since the good old times, when Fancy, with Fear and Superstition behind her, would creep on tiptoe to catch a shuddering glimpse of Cobbold Fay, or Incubus. Vain were all my efforts to revive the pleasant horrors of earlier years.
What will he do, and how will he ever forgive Mrs. Ashford, who, I see in the paper, has a son whom nobody wants, as if for the express purpose of insulting Markham's feelings! Well-a-day! I should have liked to have had the sound of Sir Guy Morville still in my ears, and yet I don't know that I could have endured its being applied to a little senseless baby!
Just as the clock is going to strike, souse! some Devil pours a wash-basin down on me, or I bolt against some fellow coming out, and get myself engaged in endless quarrels till the time is clean gone. "Ah! well-a-day! whither are ye fled, ye blissful dreams of coming fortune, when I proudly thought that here I might even reach the height of Privy Secretary?
I dare not slay him, he will not to school, And still he shakes his bauble in my face. 'I seize him, Lord, and bring him to thy door; Bound on thine altar-threshold him I lay. He weepeth; did I heed, he would implore; And still he cries ALACK and WELL-A-DAY!
"Ah me! Well-a-day!" exclaimed Philemoi, when they had walked a little way from their door. "If our neighbors only knew what a blessed thing it is to show hospitality to strangers, they would tie up all their dogs, and never allow their children to fling another stone." "It is a sin and shame for them to behave so, that it is!" cried good old Baucis, vehemently.
Robin became, observes Mr Hunter, moody and melancholy: 'Alas! then said good Robin, 'Alas, and well-a-day I If I dwell longer with the king, Sorrow will me slay.
But what is all this to what you were saying about your mourning wares even now? It is a sad truth, that my poor lord is gone But what then? Well-a-day, you know the good old saw, 'Cloth must be wear, Eat beef and drink beer, Though the dead go to bier.
"Alack, and a well-a-day, Master Julian, if it be really you you are to know my poor goodman has gone where he can come to no one; but, doubtless, we shall all go to him, as Matthew Chamberlain says." "He is dead, then?" said Julian. "I am extremely sorry " "Dead six months and more, Master Julian; and let me tell you, it is a long time for a lone woman, as Matt Chamberlain says."
And he concealed his sentimental hypocrisy in a cotton pocket-handkerchief. "Alas, and well-a-day! that it should have come to this.
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