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LADY ALLONBY, a woman of fashion, and widow to Lord Stephen Allonby. MISS ALLONBY, daughter to Lord Stephen by a former marriage, of a considerable fortune in her own hands. FOOTMEN to Lady Allonby; and in the Proem FRANCIS ORTS, commonly know as FRANCIS VANBINGHAM, a dissolute play-actor. A drawing-room In Lady Allonby's villa at Tunbridge Wells. PROEM: To be Filed for Reference Hereafter
"I will not purchase my life at the cost of yours. I will be indebted to you for nothing, Simon Orts." The Vicar chuckled. "Nor appeared Less than archangel ruined," he said. "No, faith, not a whit less! We are much of a piece, Anastasia. Do you know if affairs had fallen out differently I think I might have been a man and you a woman? As it is " Kneeling still, his glance devoured her.
The whole of that deeply interesting dialogue illustrates the difficulty of self-knowledge, which can only be acquired by the teaching of the Holy Spirit. 'All to brake'; an obsolete mode of expression for 'altogether broke. Ed. 'Orts'; an obsolete word in England, derived from the Anglo-Saxon. Any worthless leaving or refuse.
Punshon has orders to pass Simon Orts. Very well; put on this." He caught up his long cloak and wrapped it about her. Lady Allonby stood rigid. But immediately he frowned and removed the garment from her shoulders. "That won't do. Your skirts are too big. Take 'em off." Submissively she did so, and presently stood before him in her under-petticoat.
Panurge hearing this, his breech began to make buttons; so he slunk in in an instant, and went to hide his head down in the bread-room among the musty biscuits and the orts and scraps of broken bread. Pantagruel in the meantime said to the rest: I feel a pressing retraction in my soul, which like a voice admonishes me not to land there.
"And another wonderful fact old Hatevil Allen paid jest the same amount for this farm that our Government paid for the Louisiana Purchase." "Do you mean to tell me, Josiah, that Hatevil Allen paid fifteen millions for this farm. Will you tell me that? You, a member of the meetin' house and a deacon?" "Well, what you might call the same, it is the same figgers with the six orts left out.
Orts, I would be glad to credit your warning to officious friendliness, were it not that the odor about your person compels me to attribute it to gin." "Oh, I have been drinking," he conceded; "I have been drinking with a most commendable perseverance for these fifteen years. But at present I am far from drunk."
Lady Allonby had found the world a pleasant place since her widowhood. "They will not kill you? You swear it, Simon?" "Why, the man was their tyrant. They obeyed him yes, through fear. I am their deliverer, Anastasia. But if they found a woman here a woman not ill-looking " Simon Orts snapped his fingers. "Faith, I leave you to conjecture," said he.
But Lord Rokesle was a man of ice, "Matrimony is a serious matter, Anastasia; 'tis not becoming in those who are about to enter it to exhibit undue levity. I wonder what's keeping Simon?" "Simon Orts!" she said, in a half-whisper. Then she came toward Lord Rokesle, smiling. "Why, of course, I teased you, Vincent, but there was never any hard feeling, was there? And you really wish me to marry you?
There was a brief silence; then Lady Allonby observed: "Perhaps I was discourteous. I ask your forgiveness, Mr. Orts. And now, if you will pardon the suggestion, I think you had better go to your dying parishioner." But she had touched the man to the quick. "I am a drunkard; who made me so?
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