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Updated: June 28, 2025
'She will be married in Whitsun week, and as he is headmaster, they will live in Dr. Hoxton's house. Dear, good Mary, how glad I am that she is so full of happiness her letter quite brims over with it! I wonder if I may work anything to send her. 'I should like to send her some very beautiful thing indeed, cried Ella, with emphasis, and eyes dilating at some visionary magnificence.
Near the door stood a group of young men in short, strong, baggy knee-breeches and broad-buttoned pelisse-like dolmans. Every one of them had a bright kerchief in his button-hole, and spurred boots upon his feet. Prominent amongst all the youths stood the Whitsun King of the year before.
One steed stumbled beneath his rider; the rest galloped on. From the carriages it was easy to see how the Whitsun King was galloping along among the rest, his long chaplet of flowers streaming in the wind behind him.
The festival was to be held at Whitsuntide, and as the time drew near, noble guests were seen daily riding into Worms. Kings came from afar, thirty-two princes also had journeyed thither, and when Whitsun morning dawned, five thousand men and more had come to Rhineland, where free from care dwelt King Gunther.
She attracted him enormously ... but he was not the sort of man to waste his time. "When do you go back to London?" she asked. "Wednesday morning." She sighed deeply, leaning against him on the sofa. "Is this all the holiday you'll get this year?" "No I've Whitsun coming Friday to Tuesday. I might run down to Marlingate ..." He watched her carefully. "Oh, that 'ud be fine.
Now, when the sworn jurors brought in the new Whitsun King to introduce him to Squire John, the great man ordered every one to leave the room incontinently, so that they two might be quite alone together. Master Jock was sitting in an armchair, with his feet in a large tub of water, chewing a couple of bitter almonds. All this was by way of preparation for the evening's debauch.
Here matters were little better, for the highway was ploughed deep by the wheels of the numberless vans and coaches journeying from one town to another during the Whitsun holidays, so that even a young gentleman travelling post must resign himself to a plebeian rate of progression.
On the fourth day, of all his good friends, officials, domestics, and buffoons, Mike Kis, Martin the former Whitsun King, Master Varga the estate agent, Palko the old heyduke, and Vidra the gipsy, were the only persons who remained with John Kárpáthy as he stood at Death's ferry. Even the poet Gyárfás had deserted him, and hastened to congratulate the new patron.
The lad himself had clearly forgotten what day it was. All the more piquant then to startle him out of his insolent security. "Then, my beloved little brother, are you not aware that to-day is red Whitsun Day?" "What's that got to do with me? I am neither a parson nor an almanac-maker." "Eh, eh! Recollect that at a quarter to four your Whitsun Kingship ceases!"
On the 22d of May, two isles were observed, the most southerly bearing from S. by E. to S.W. by S., and seeming to be about twelve leagues long, in a N.N.W. direction; the other bore from S.W. 1/2 S. to W.N.W., and having been first seen at day-break, was called Aurora. To the former, in honour of the day, was given the name of Isle de la Pentecôte, or Whitsun Isle.
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