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After supping together, the gentlemen indulged in merriment which, towards midnight, became uproarious. In the morning Mrs. Turpin mumbled a shamefaced apology for this disturbance of Miss Rodney's repose. 'Why don't you take this opportunity and get rid of him? asked the lodger in her matter-of-fact tone. 'Oh, miss! 'Yes, it's your plain duty to do so.
Her heart followed him, seeing him a Conqueror even in this, seeing him a robber with his rose-colored booty, a Robin Hood of the Garden, a Dick Turpin among the tuberoses. The spirit of Romance went with him. The things that Pride had done for her looked gray and dull. She had promised to marry Randy, and felt that she faced a somewhat sober future.
Neighboring potentates, Archbishop of Magdeburg and others, struck in also at discretion, as they had gradually got accustomed to do, and snapped away some convenient bit of territory, or, more legitimately, they came across to coerce, at their own hand, this or the other Edle Herr of the Turpin sort, whom there was no other way of getting at, when he carried matters quite too high.
And if I am slain, the man who wins it may say, "it was the sword of a noble vassal." Then from a little hill Turpin the Archbishop spoke to them. 'Charles has left us here; he is our King, and it is our duty to die for him. Christianity is in danger, and you must defend it. You cannot escape a battle; then fight, and ask God's pardon for your sins.
But Starlight, unlike Turpin, does not become vain with success, and is far from being enamoured with his profession. Indeed, he is quite with the orthodox view of it. He is a bushranger, apparently, because he no longer hopes or desires to resume his rank in certain aristocratic circles from which, by occasional hints, we are informed that he has fallen.
Fiercer, wilder still, the battle grew. Roland, Oliver, Archbishop Turpin and all the twelve peers of France fought in the thickest of the press. Many of the heathen fled, but even in flight they were cut down. Meanwhile over France burst a fearful storm. Thunder rolled, lightning flashed, the very earth shook and trembled.
And if your children are, because of me, without their dolls to-morrow, you can remember this, that the kiddies are happy below stairs since Dick Turpin dwells aloft! "From among the rest I have chosen for myself a squat bottle, a box of biscuits, and a tin of the little imported sausages that you taught me to like. "Well, my dear fellow, happy days!
Then Hereward spurred his horse, shouting, "A bear! a bear!" and dashed into the press; and therein did mightily, like any Turpin or Roland, till he saw lie on the ground, close to the castle gate, one of the chatelain's knights with four Guisnes knights around him.
That, I think, would be the outcome of Emerson's 'Representative Men, or of those most tragic 'Memoirs of Margaret Puller Ossoli." "How then, hair-splitter? What is the mighty difference?" "Would you call Dick Turpin a good man, because he was a good highwayman?" "What now?" "That he would be an excellent representative man of his class; and therefore, on Mr.
Why, you look as if you had been trailed through seven cities got the blues, eh?" "Worse than that, Turpin. I'm in a fair way for the Old Bailey." "The deuce you are!" exclaimed the latter, who owing to several sharp feats performed upon some members of the club, was dubbed Turpin. Mr.
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