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It was, therefore, with an alacrity which, the minute before, he could scarce have commanded, and which seemed to express a stern pleasure, that, having pressed his lips to the cold brow of the unhappy Magdalen, the armourer replied: "I, Henry the Smith, dwelling in the Wynd of Perth, good man and true, and freely born, accept the office of champion to this widow Magdalen and these orphans, and will do battle in their quarrel to the death, with any man whomsoever of my own degree, and that so long as I shall draw breath.
But Elsley had vanished into a chamber bestrewn with plaids, pipes, hob-nail boots, fishing-tackle, mathematical books, scraps of ore, and the wild confusion of a gownsman's den. "The party is taken ill with a poem," said Wynd. Naylor stuck out his heavy under-lip and glanced sidelong at his friend. "With something worse, Ned. That man's eye and voice had something uncanny in them.
The man smoothed his rugged features and grinned a smile of satisfaction. "That mediciner will show thee the party. Take such advantage of time, place, and circumstance as will ensure the result; and mind you come not by the worst, for the man is the fighting Smith of the Wynd." "It Will be a tough job," growled the assassin; "for if I miss my blow, I may esteem myself but a dead man.
Lunan, the tinsmith, and two women, who had the luck to be in the street at the time, saw him stopping at Dr. McQueen's door, as if about to knock, and then turning smartly away. His hat blew off in the school wynd, where a wind wanders ever, looking for hats, and he chased it so passionately that Lang Tammas went into Allardyce's smiddy to say "I dinna like it.
He has picked up a companion on the road; and, as it frequently happens that several trades hold their meetings in the same house, they both are bound to the same Herberge. Through strange, half-lighted streets, along narrow edges of pavement, they proceed till they enter a court, or wynd, with no footpath at all, and they are in the Schuster Gasse, before the door of the Herberge.
But Henry Wynd wore his own good hauberk, doubly defended with a lining of tempered steel. Had he been less surely armed, his combats had been ended for ever. Even as it was, he was slightly wounded.
She croaked and she hissed, and then hopped away down the castle steps, and Childe Wynd took his father's place as king, and they all lived happy afterwards. But to this day, the loathsome toad is seen at times, haunting the neighbourhood of Bamborough Keep, and the wicked witch-queen is a Laidly Toad. The cat and the mouse Play'd in the malt-house: The cat bit the mouse's tail off.
"I am no gentleman," said Henry "I am Hal of the Wynd, a burgess of Perth; and I have done nothing to need forgiveness." "Villain, then hast done thou knowest not what! But let me go, and I will fill thy bonnet with gold pieces." "I shall fill thy bonnet with a cloven head presently," said the armourer, "unless thou stand still as a true prisoner."
My father, however, again bowed low, and hoped he saw him well. 'So well, my good Mr. Fairford, that I come hither determined to renew my acquaintance with one or two old friends, and with you in the first place. I halt at my old resting place you must dine with me to-day, at Paterson's, at the head of the Horse Wynd it is near your new fashionable dwelling, and I have business with you.
"I want to see himsel', gin ye please." "Weel, come in, and I'll tell him. What's yer name?" "Annie Anderson" "Whaur do ye bide?" "At Mr Bruce's, i' the Wast Wynd." The maid went, and presently returning with the message that she was to "gang up the stair," conducted her to the study where the minister sat a room, to Annie's amazement, filled with books from the top to the bottom of every wall.
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