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Every body said the man was fey; and truly, when I remarked him so gallant and gay on the Sabbath at the kirk, and noted his glowing face and gleg een, I thought at times there was something no canny about him. It was indeed clear to be seen, that the man was hurried out of himself; but nobody could have thought that the death he was to dree would have been what it was.
"Mind, I tells it you, master; and somehow or other I thinks and I has experience in these things by the fey, of his eye and the drop of his lip, that the captain's time will be up to-day!" Here the robber lost all patience, and pushing the hoary boder of evil against the wall, he turned on his heel, and sought some more agreeable companion to share his stirrup-cup.
That evening Morgana was in one of her most bewitching moods even the old Highland word "fey" scarcely described her many brilliant variations from grave to gay, from gay to romantic, and from romantic to a kind of humorous-satiric vein which moved her to utter quick little witticisms which might have seemed barbed with too sharp a point were they not so quickly covered with a sweetness of manner which deprived them of all malice.
His friends watched him commence this perilous descent in dismay; but, though much alarmed, they were unable to follow him. "Poor lad! I am fearful he has lost his senses," said Sherborne. "He is what the King would call 'fey, and not long for this world," replied Nicholas, shaking his head.
"The howling o' a sma' dog," declared his wife; "and I thought 'twas a portent, an' the great fear came o'er me again. But as I prayed 'twas unfolder to me that the portent was no' for yersel' but for her the puir weak hairt ye ha' tee save." She ceased speaking and the strange fey light left her eyes. She dropped upon her knees beside Kerry, bending her head and throwing her arms about him.
Quoth she, 'Thou'rt daft for us and fey'; quoth I, * 'Sain thee! how many a friend hast turned to corse! If taste mine eyes sweet sleep while she's away, * Allah with loss of her these eyne accurse. And when the owner of the voice heard these words, he cried out, "O thou that respondest to my complaint and wouldest hear my history, who art thou amongst the knights? Art thou human or Jinni?
I do but follow after," and thrice Groa shrieked aloud, throwing up her arms, then fell foaming on the sanded floor. "An evil woman and a fey!" said Asmund as he called people to her. "It had been better for me if I had never seen her dark face." Now it is to be told that Groa lay beside herself for ten full days, and Swanhild nursed her.
Look where lies her luckless husband, Bolder sea-king ne'er swung sword! Asmund, keep the kirtle-wearer, For last night the Norns were crying, And Groa thought they told of thee: Yea, told of thee and babes unborn. "How knowest thou my name?" asked Asmund. "The sea-mews cried it as the ship sank, thine and others and they shall be heard in story." "Ay," she answered, "fey and fair."
"Frank," he said, smiling, "it's a pity you are an ass, for you have the makings of a man. I think I must be fey to-day; you cannot irritate me even when you try. Do you know," he continued softly, "I think we are the two most miserable men in England, you and I? we have got on to thirty without wife or child, or so much as a shop to look after poor, pitiful, lost devils, both!
Who can believe in growing old, so long as we are wrapped in this cloak of colour and wings and song; so long as this unimaginable vision is here for us to gaze at the soft-faced sheep about us, and the wool-bags drying out along the fence, and great numbers of tiny ducks, so trustful that the crows have taken several. Blue is the colour of youth, and all the blue flowers have a "fey" look.
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