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But Mr. Blount and Mrs. Wimple had been dead these ten years; they died in the same month. Simon and Sally were children when that happened, and since then they had grown up together in the closest family intimacy, interrupted only by Sally's winter schooling in New York, and renewed every summer by her regular seasons at Hendrik.
Her robe was of white samite lined with ermine; her white palfrey had a silver bit, while her breastplate, stirrups, and saddle were of ivory, carved with figures of ladies and knights, and her white housings trailed on the ground. When she perceived the king, she responded to his salutation, and said, after she had lowered her wimple and displayed her face: "Sir, may God bless the best of kings!
When Miss Wimple would have soothed her, tenderly caressing, and promising her a sister's kindness and protection, a home safely guarded from intrusion, Madeline assailed her savagely, bidding her be off, with her smooth treachery, her pretty lies. "'Sister! devil! Do I not know what a hell your 'home' is? and as for 'safety, shall I seek that among snakes?
Back to the nest again with the sticks; Madeline slept in the chair, poor heart! Miss Wimple made a fire in her little stove, and when some water was hot, she roused her guest with a kiss.
Or is there less reality about the "Knight" in his short cassock and old-fashioned armour and the "Wife of Bath" in hat and wimple, than for instance about Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman? Can we not hear "Madame Eglantine" lisping her "Stratford-atte-Bowe" French as if she were a personage in a comedy by Congreve or Sheridan?
On this side it is all an agreeable corn country as above, adorned with several seats of gentlemen; but the chief is the noble house, seat, or mansion of Wimple or Wimple Hall, formerly built at a vast expense by the late Earl of Radnor, adorned with all the natural beauties of situation, and to which was added all the most exquisite contrivances which the best heads could invent to make it artificially as well as naturally pleasant.
Somewhat wearily, but with all courtliness of manner, he had her shown into his consultation room. Mademoiselle d'Albret entered, her nurse's cloak draped gracefully from her shoulders, the little, nunlike cap and wimple hiding her hair, while a veil concealed her face to some extent. Through its meshes one could make out a face that seemed young and pretty, and a pair of great, dark eyes.
And in a purely worldly point of view, too, those touching offerings to Mercy were safe enough; for when Miss Wimple promised Madeline that she would find Mr.
Her costume was the familiar one of a French Red Cross nurse, with the jaunty, close-fitting cap and wimple in white hiding her hair except for a few strands. Her figure was slender, lithe and graceful, and such of her features as were visible were delicate and shapely; her mouth, especially, being ripe and inviting.
In the midst of a great deal about the mess, and the fellows, and the boys, and the others, and an inexplicable fuss there is about a speculation the mess entered into with some illicit dealer for an additional supply, not of liquor, but of sugar, which I believe was detected, and which covers pages of badly written and worse spelled manuscript, not another distinct allusion to the French boy, not near so much as to Toney or Wimple or Scroop, or big Wallis or little Wallis.
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