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"I have a pencil," I answered; "but I have no paper. Would my cuff do, do you think?" "Oh, yes!" replied Miss Lammas, with alacrity; "men often do that." I wrote on my cuff: "Miss Lammas wishes me to explain that I am your neighbour, Cairngorm." Then I held out my arm before the old lady's nose.
The Bedouin seem born in an element of war; one we heard of had lasted fifteen years, but was happily now stopped for a little while. On a hill near the plain, about half a mile from Bir Lammas, there are ruins of good style, probably of the Ashabir period of Hamdani. We were to ride five hours to the next water after Bir Lammas.
Here, lad! and dropping a gold coin into the wooden bowl carried round by the blind minstrel's attendant, he was turning away, when the glee-man, detecting perhaps the ring of the coin, broke forth in stirring tones "It fell about the Lammas tide, When moormen win their hay, The doughty Earl of Douglas rode Into England to catch a prey."
For Don John of Austria intends not only to crush the liberties and creeds of the Flemings, but afterwards to marry the Queen of Scots, and conquer England: and Elizabeth, unwillingly and slowly, for she cannot stomach rebels, has sent men and money to the States to stop Don John in time; which the valiant English and Scotch do on Lammas day, 1578, and that in a fashion till then unseen in war.
The graveyard at Eckford possessed no horrors for him. "Bogles," quoth he, "what's a bogle? I threw muckle Sandy, the wrestler, at Lammas Fair, an' pity the bogle that meddles wi' me."
No use! too late! you cannot put it out! It must burn." "You have been dreaming," said one. "I have not," said Hereward. "Is it Lammas night?" "What a question! It is the vigil of the Nativity of St. Peter and St. Paul." "Thank heaven! I thought my old Lammas night's dream was coming true at last." Herluin heard, and knew what he meant. After which Hereward was silent, filled with many thoughts.
He hath been to the North with Captain Frobisher, and since that to the Western Main, and we look for his return even now." "How long is it since this pledge, as thou callest it, was given?" "Five years next Lammas tide, madam." "Was it by ring or token?" "No, madam. Our mother said we were too young, but Humfrey meant it with all his heart." "Humfrey!
Bir Lammas is a great, and I must add, very dirty, halting-place for caravans going to Shukra, on the Tarik el Arkob, to El Kaur and the Wadi Hadhramout. We were two nights at Bir Lammas. I was too ill to go about at all, but I could not resist going out to see some baboons which came to look at us from the low cliffs. I am sure their leader must have been 4 feet long without his tail.
"Then try big things, just for a change," suggested Miss Lammas. "Try and get married, for instance, and see how it turns out." "If it turned out badly it would be rather serious." "Not half so serious as it is to abuse everything unreasonably. If abuse is your particular talent, abuse something that ought to be abused.
Yesterday I agreed to let Cadell have the new work, edition 1500, he paying all charges, and paying also £500 two hundred and fifty at Lammas, to pay J. Gibson money advanced on the passage of young Walter, my nephew, to India. It is like a thorn in one's eye this sort of debt, and Gibson is young in business, and somewhat involved in my affairs besides.
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