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"A lean brother with a thin red beard, and a shrewd, puckered visage." "Ha! By that token 'twas Segrim the bursar. He wots how to drive a bargain. Saint Austin! but he deemed you came to look after your kinsman's corrody." "He said the king spake of a visitation to abolish corrodies from religious houses," said Ambrose. "He'll abolish the long bow from them first," said Father Shoveller.
She rose up with the moan of a hunted thing. She did not pause to make excuses for the hunter, to consider the pioneer life that wots little of sentiment in proportion to utility; she only saw again the grave at Haun's Mill and the white faces of her dead upturned to hers. It seemed that this man, with the consent of his people, was urging his suit as it were beside the very corpse of her husband.
And this manner of song have none unless they be in this third degree of love: to the which degree it is impossible to come, but in a great multitude of love. Therefore, if thou wilt wot what kind of joy that song has, I tell thee, that no man wots, save he or she who feels it, who has it, and who loves GOD singing therewith.
The dealer, who had just placed the bureau on the tail-board of the van, came back wiping his brow with his sleeve. "Wots the little game?" he demanded. Mr. Letts left the answer to Mr. Green, and going to the van took up the bureau and walked back to the house with it. Mr.
"Cursed be the land I 'was born in! cursed be the race of man! and he that made them what they are!" screamed Denys. "Hush, Denys, hush! blaspheme not! Oh, God forgive him, he wots not what he says. Be patient, Denys, be patient: though we meet no more on earth, let us meet in a better world, where no blasphemer may enter. To my heart, lost friend; for what are words now?"
"What is that I hear about bolls of meal?" he said; "what wots this fair damosel of our rude Scots measures for oats and bear? You talk like the holder of a twenty-shilling land, James." "I was saying," answered James Douglas, "that you would be a proper man of your lance when you had laid a score or two bolls of good Galloway meal to your ribs.
"Yes, Bill." "Have you got a spare copy of that reg'lar bulletin that the Stage Kempany issoos every ten minutes to each passenger to tell 'em where we are, how far it is to the next place, and wots the state o' the weather gin'rally?" "No!" said the Expressman grimly, as he climbed to the box, "there's not one left. Why?" "Cos the Emperor of Chiny's inside wantin' one! Hoop!
Martha Trapbois is a person of very awful and majestic appearance, and may, for aught I know, be come of better blood than any one wots of; for old Trapbois looks not over like to be her father, and her mother was a generous, liberal sort of a woman." "I am afraid," answered Nigel, "that chance is rather too vague to assure her a gracious reception into an honourable house."
He came straight to Bill Chambers's mug wot 'ad just been filled and emptied it, and then 'e sat down on a seat gasping for breath. "Wots the matter, Henery?" ses Bill, staring at 'im with 'is mouth open. Henery Walker groaned and shook his 'ead. "Didn't you get the hamper?" ses Bill, turning pale. Henery Walker shook his 'ead agin. "Shut up!" he ses, as Bill Chambers started finding fault.
'Why, Bill! says she. 'Why, Peggy! says I; and we bussed each other like winky. 'Shall us come together agin? says she. 'Why, no, says I; 'I has a wife wots a good 'un, and gets her bread by setting up as a widder with seven small childern. By the by, Peg, what's a come of your brat? for as you says, sir, Peg had a child put out to her to nurse. Lor', how she cuffed it!
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