Novels and romances of the author of Waverley, Volume 5A. Constable, 1824 |
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Page 182 - This is some creature of the elements. Most like your sea-gull. He can wheel and whistle His screaming song, e'en when the storm is loudestTake for his sheeted couch the restless foam Of the wild wave-crest—slumber in the calm, And dally with the storm. Yet 'tis a gull, An arrant gull, with all this. The
Page 76 - chickens —venison cutlets—and a space in the centre, wet, alas ! by a gentle tear from Chaubert's eye, where should have been the soupe d'ecrivisses. The zeal of that poor fellow is ill repaid by his paltry ten louis per month." " A mere trifle," said Ganlesse; " but, like yourself, Will, he serves a generous master.
Page 139 - and turning hastily from him, he left the room, and Julian heard him hasten down the narrow staircase, as if distrusting his own resolution. With a heavy heart, yet with that confidence in an overruling Providence which never forsakes a good and brave man, Peveril betook himself to his lowly place of repose.
Page 241 - great to be allowed to him ; and Christian had little trouble in convincing him that the strong inclination which he felt to bestow her on Julian Peveril, providing he could be brought over to his own political opinions, was a blameable compromise with his more severe principles. Late circumstances had taught him the incapacity and
Page 147 - to my knowledge—Get thee back to the Castle, as ye hope to be married—See my lady—they cannot hinder thee of that—my lady has a head worth twenty of ours—If I am to gather force, light up the beacon for a signal; and spare not a tar barrel on't. Thou may'st do it safe enough. I
Page 70 - He was a fellow in a peasant's garb ; Yet one could censure you a woodcock's carving, Like any courtier at the ordinary. The Ordinary. THE person who appeared at the door of the little inn to receive Ganlesse, as we mentioned in our last chapter, sung, as he came forward, this scrap of an old ballad,—
Page 402 - to turn with the changing breeze. But as yet, while I have spirit and action, let it whirl like the vane at the mast-head, which teaches the pilot how to steer his course ; and when I shift mine, think I am bound to follow fortune, and not to control her." " I can understand nothing from
Page 277 - A tap at the further and opposite door here arrested her attention—she quitted the handle of that which she was about to open as speedily as if it had burnt her fingers, and, moving back towards her couch, asked, " Who is there ?" " Old Rowley himself, madam," said the King, entering the apartment with his usual
Page 362 - cap, that enveloped his head. The singularity of his features, and of the eyes, armed with spectacles, which were now cast on the subject of his studies, now directed towards his little caldron, would have tempted Rembrandt to exhibit him on canvass, either in the character of an alchemist, or of a necromancer,
Page 244 - narrow and perilous game, which he thought it better, however, to undertake, than to permit these subordinate agents, who were always ready to mutiny against all in league with them, to obtain the credit which they must have done by the seizure of the Countess of Derby's dispatches. It was, besides, essential to Buckingham's schemes