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From the point of view of symbolism this menagerie is not particularly interesting since these monsters the wyvern, the manicoris, the leoncerote, the tharanda and sea-monk all mean the same thing, and all embody the Spirit of Evil." He took out his watch. "Come," said he, "I have still time enough before dinner to go through the list of real animals." And he turned over his notes on birds.
I have busied myself in contradicting it. If Mrs. Waltham does not tell her, she will hear it from her friend Miss Tew, without question. Hubert pondered, then made the inquiry: 'How could I procure a meeting with Miss Tew? I met her just now on the road and spoke to her. I think she might consent to help me. Mr. Wyvern looked doubtful. 'You met her? She was coming from Agworth?
It was Isabel Wyvern, her aunt, who had wedded with the redoubtable Sir Richard who had burnt the old witch, and I trow had he been married when the old beldam was brought before him he would have dealt more mercifully with her; for the Wyverns ever protected and helped the gipsy folk, and thought better of them than the rest of the world.
It was an hour and a half after that exciting affair at "Dead Man's Corner." The scene was Superintendent Narkom's private room at headquarters, the dramatis personæ, Mr. Maverick Narkom himself, Sir Horace Wyvern, and Miss Ailsa Lorne, his niece, a slight, fair-haired, extremely attractive girl of twenty.
Some Wyvern, belike; but doubtless we shall learn to take pleasure in each other. "Soft! are those steps without? Yes; and some one knocks at the door. "Enter, enter, I pray. I am right glad What! do my eyes deceive me? Sure I am in some strange dream! Petronella! Surely it cannot be Petronella!
Richard mused; his legs were crossed, and he swayed his foot up and down. 'Well, no, I can't see that. But I tell you what would make it simpler: do you think Mr. Wyvern would come if I, asked him? 'Ah, now, that would be capital! Oh, ask Mr. Wyvern by all means. Then, of course, I should be delighted to accept. 'But I haven't much hope that he'll come. I rather think he regards me as his enemy.
Lord Shrewsbury was known to be summoned, and Cicely spent half her time in watching for some well-known face, in the hope that he might bring her good foster-father in his train. More than once she declared that she saw a cap or sleeve with the well-beloved silver dog, when it turned out to be a wyvern or the royal lion himself.
A big powdered wig, half as high as herself, was a-top o' her head, and, wow! was ever such wrinkles? and her old baggy throat all powdered white, and her cheeks rouged, and mouse-skin eyebrows, that Mrs. Wyvern used to stick on, and there she lay proud and stark, wi' a pair o' clocked silk hose on, and heels to her shoon as tall as nine-pins. Lawk!
"I know you, at least," he replied, shaking with mingled embarrassment and delight at the knowledge that at last he was permitted to speak to her, to have her speak to him. "I have seen you often in London; and to find you here, like this? It fairly takes away my breath." "The explanation is very simple, Mr. Cleek. I suppose you know that my uncle, Sir Horace Wyvern, married again last spring?
He paused somewhat abruptly, for he was thinking of Mutimer, and did not wish to make the application too obvious. Hubert restrained a smile. They parted shortly after, but not till Hubert had put one more question. 'Do you, or do you not, approve of what I am doing down in the valley? Mr. Wyvern thought a moment, and replied gravely: 'You being yourself, I approve it heartily.
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