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'Welcome, quoth she, 'my sister by the Rood. She feasted her that joy it was to tell The fare they had, they drank the wine so clear; And as to purpose now and then it fell, So cheered her with, 'How, sister, what cheer. Amid this joy befell a sorry chance, That welladay, the stranger bought full dear The fare she had.
Santon will yet become reconciled to you, for when she finds what a good heart you have, she cannot but treat you with kindness." At this juncture the door opened, and Mrs. Santon brushed rudely in; "welladay! is this your usual morning's occupation? Miss Grosvenor, I think you should have more wisdom than to be petting a spoiled child!
She said they had three of four through the year and they seemed to be reckoned as great treats, but all a girl could expect." "And think how much we demand," said Ruth thoughtfully. "Welladay! Maybe we have too much too much of the good things of the earth." "Bah!" exclaimed Helen, with disgust. "One can't get too much of the good things. No, ma'am! Take all you can "
She felt rather uneasy about the result of her morning's work, though she had really done it from a conscientious sense of duty. "Welladay," she sighed, at last, "she'd better be a little cut up and huffy now, than to walk into a ditch blindfolded; and I wash my hands of whatever may happen after this. I've had my say and done my part." Alas, Ivy Geer!
'Tis true, you will meet with some jeering prattle-arses, that will say, is this that brave couple, that there was such a noise made of when they were married! Is this the Gentlewoman that used to go so costly in her Gorgets and Gowns! Goes she now with a plain wastcoat! alas and welladay! doth her feathers begin to hang thus! Well, is this the Gentlewoman that used alwaies to keep two maids!
He hated to think of her expression when he conveyed Mosenthal's offer to her. The Jew's notes positively burned in his fingers as he had laid them down on his dressing-table; the fellow's offer was extraordinarily tempting. Ah, welladay! This was the end, then, of Heronsbeck Hall, which he prized above every earthly possession after his daughter.
Can you wonder now that such a wicked woman should be gone from you a full month instead of the week I intended? Ah, welladay!" At last the house was finished, the removal from Brunswick effected, and the reunited family was comfortably settled in its Andover home. The plans for the winter's literary work were, however, altered by force of circumstances.
"Welladay, this is a respite for us both, then," he said. But realizing that an admission that he was married might hopelessly reduce their hour to a formal basis, he took refuge in a falsehood. "My companion expects to meet a wife in Jerusalem," he continued.
Erling and I rode on with the reeve, therefore, and I thought no more of the blind man, as one may suppose, until I heard what had happened. When the two men went back to his help, he sat again by the side of the road, hiding his face in his hands on his knees. And he was trembling. "Friends," he said, "now I know why you go so sadly, welladay!
Comes a clatter of slippered heels on the hall floor and in bustles my Lady Kirke, bejewelled and befrilled and beflounced till I had thought no mortal might bend in such massive casings of starch. "La," she pants, "good lack! Wellaway! My fine savage! Welladay! What a pretty mischief have you been working? Proposals are amaking at the foot of the stairs. O lud!
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