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Now beholding the face of the speaker, his proud and noble bearing, his bold eyes fierce and bright and the grim line of nose and chin, Duke Ivo blenched and drew back, the smile fled from his lip, and he stared wide of eye and breathless. "Beltane!" quoth he at last, "Beltane ha! methought thee dusty bones these many years so it is war, I judge?"
"Friend Ashley comes back early," she remarked glancing over the fence into the road. "Methought he was not to return until nightfall." "Why, that was the intention," answered Sally. "I heard him tell his wife that 'twould be late ere he came back. I wonder why he did not stay?" She went to the fence and leaned upon it, gazing with some curiosity at Thomas Ashley's approaching form.
Methought once, that could I obtain the grace of royalty, the ear of power, the command of wealth, my path to glory was made smooth and sure; I should become the grand inventor of my time and land; I should leave my lore a heritage and blessing wherever labour works to civilize the round globe.
The spot you had touched I marked out in silence, that I might kiss it and address it when you were gone. You left us; four years passed away: and the recollection of you made and shaped my very nature. I loved solitude; for in solitude I saw you in imagination I spoke to you and methought you answered and did not chide.
And it was declared that if he be found to have done so, he should be reckoned unfit to serve the Navy; and I do believe he will be turned out; and it was, methought, a worthy saying of Sir W. Coventry to the Duke of York, "Sir," says he, "I do not make this complaint out of any disrespect to Commissioner Pett, but because I do love to do these things fairly and openly."
Creed, whose discourse was mighty merry in inveighing at Mr. Gauden's victuals that they had at sea the last voyage that he prosecuted, till methought the woman began to take it seriously. After dinner by Mr. Gauden's motion we got Mrs. Gauden and her sister to sing to a viall, on which Mr.
Methought already I had heard the noise of hoofs on the highway, and now the hound sniffed the air, so, being inquisitive, I moved my feet somewhat faster till I caught sight of a horseman, who sprang from his saddle, and leaving his steed, hurried toward the clearing whither Ann must presently come from her side.
"Physician," said the officer of the Guard as I went through the gates, "what passes yonder in the Monument? Methought I heard the sounds of death." "Naught passes all hath passed," I made reply, and went. And as I went in the darkness I heard the sound of voices and the running of the feet of Cæsar's messengers. Flying swiftly to my house I found Atoua waiting at the gates.
And methought that beauty and terror are only one, not two; And the world has room for love, and death, and thunder, and dew; And all the sinews of hell slumber in summer air; And the face of God is a rock, but the face of the rock is fair. Beneficent streams of tears flow at the finger of pain; And out of the cloud that smites, beneficent rivers of rain.
Let go the young gentleman, wife let him go: for his sake the pert thing shall be spared this once. So saying, he drew, or rather dragged off, his ferocious help-mate. 'Methought when we entered, said Clodius, 'there was another man present? 'He is gone. For the priest of Isis had indeed thought it high time to vanish.
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