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...known to her as a kinsman of Westburnflat, came riding very fast after the marauders, and told their leader, that his cousin had learnt from a sure ha... ...r nothing, Mr. Vere—your daughter’s hand to-night, or I depart, were it at midnight—there is my ulti- matum.” “I embrace it,” said Ellieslaw; “and I w... ...omplish this, I have promised to Langley that Isabella shall marry him ere midnight, and to Mareschal, that she shall do so without compulsion. I have... ...pt for ransom nothing but your hand in marriage, and that conferred before midnight this very evening!” “This evening, sir?” said the young lady, stru... ...; the shades are as gradual as those that divide the light of noonday from midnight. The court- ier who ruins his fortune for the attainment of a titl... ...man race as myself? Hast thou not heard this—And dost thou seek my cell at midnight?” “The Being I worship supports me against such idle fears,” said ...

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... and the camp, had not yet been visited by any of the Royalist army, but a midnight toll might have attracted the attention of some of the lawless str... ... and thus the only sound at that strange sad funeral was the low boom of a midnight gun fired in the beleaguered city. Then Patience with Rusha and th... ... up among the bushes. He was not afraid for his brother and sister, as the marauders evi- dently did not want anything but the plate. Indeed, his whol...

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...e it. Every revolt, open or concealed, has its banner. The ban- ner of the marauders, the drunkards, the idlers, the slug- gards of the valley des Aig... ...onsards of Lorraine were battening. Fearing to lose Madame des Aigues, the marauders on the estate forbore to cut the young trees, unless pushed to ex... ...ht; assuring them that the house would never be attacked if he sat up till midnight, and he never himself rose till late. Not only had he thus secured... ...n of the horse proves that Michaud was murdered between eleven o’clock and midnight. At a quarter past ten Groison saw the whole company assembled at ...

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...rious in the house, that the masters and head-boys took pains to cut these marauders off at angles, and to get out of windows, and turn them out of th... ... I observed that she did so, all the evening. As I remember, it was almost midnight when we took our leave. We had had some biscuit and dried fish for...

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... could be appropriated, was by tak- ing possession of them as early as the midnight preceding any great exhibitions. Once, when it happened that his s... ...companying. As belonging to the former class, take the following story: At midnight an elderly gentleman suddenly sends round a mes- sage to a select ... ... a conspicu- ous chieftain, and the burden of their booty, made these wild marauders anxious to provide for a safe retreat; the imperial commanders in...

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...ye. She muttered the spell of Swithin bold, When his naked foot traced the midnight wold, When he stopped the Hag as she rode the night, And bade her ... ...ut- law, a second Robin Hood, perhaps, or Adam o’ Gordon, and that at deep midnight, through scenes of difficulty and toil, separated from his attenda... ...s of justice, military parties, or others, pre- sumed to pursue thieves or marauders through his territories, and without applying for his consent and... ...ends had separated, and our hero had retired to bed, he was awakened about midnight by a suppressed groan. He started up and listened; it came from th...

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...me back for dinner, was off again for the evening, and only got home about midnight to go to bed. He con- tracted certain habits half mechanically, an... ...t, Coralie and Camusot. After four o’clock, when he left his office, until midnight, he amused himself; some party of pleasure had usually been arrang... ...oings would certainly go out to buy some dainties for the “reveillon,” the midnight meal; and she might also take occasion to pay up her stake. The lo... ... month, and 66 The Two Brothers the lists closed on the twenty-fourth, at midnight. Philippe studied all these points and set himself to watch. He ca... ...cent, Philippe, by that time drunk and confident, went back to his play at midnight. In defiance of the rule he had imposed upon himself, he played fo... ...to do. You, my grandsons, the spies of such a man! You, house-breakers and marauders! Don’t you know that your worthy leader killed a poor young woman...

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...d entranced; on the other, property stands bound in the midst of chartered marauders. What property exists is vested in the family, not in the individ... ... board their respective war- ships, and these began to get up steam. About midnight, in a pouring rain, Pelly communicated to Fritze his intention to ... ...ic spectacle. In the pressure of the squalls the bay was obscured as if by midnight, but between them a great part of it was clearly if darkly visible...

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...; what dreadful decline is this, when we again catch a glimpse of him! ‘At midnight’ (it was but the 12th of Au- gust yet), ‘the servant, in his shirt... ... lying, as it were, palpable. All sorts of walkers, soldiers in uni- form, marauders, stout but sorrowing citizens and peas- ants, women and children,... ...n diving down into the dusk and throng again. Like Phantoms in the hour of midnight; most spectral, pandemonial! Never did President Vergniaud, or any... ...d rage. Tyranni- cal adjournments there have been; one, and now another at midnight on plea of fatigue,—all Friday wasted in hesi- tation and higgling... ... on the 21st of September; close on the Vernal Equinox? Vernal Equinox, at midnight for the meridian of Paris, in the year whilom Christian 1792, from... ...ill be rapid stand-to-arms; with ambuscade marchings by Quiberon beach, at midnight; storming of Fort Penthievre; war-thunder mingling with the roar o...

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...his house of us, and send us to lodge with the larks, though the hour were midnight. And be careful how you look on Rowena, whom he cherishes with the... ...ght home thy charge, sirrah Gurth, or hast thou left them to rob- bers and marauders?” “The herd is safe, so please ye,” said Gurth. “But it does not ... ...ba presently appeared to urge the same request, observing that a cup after midnight was worth three after curfew. Without disputing a maxim urged by s... ...expected to have heard such a jolly chant come from out a hermit’s cell at midnight!” “Marry, that should I,” said Gurth, “for the jolly Clerk of Copm... ...his hands and head into the fountain, he washed from them all marks of the midnight revel. Thus refreshed and sobered, the jolly priest twirled his he... ...e on fast, and the paths of the wood seemed but imper- fectly known to the marauders. They were compelled to make several long halts, and once or twic... ...property, in a tone which might have become King Alfred. “The unprincipled marauders,” he said—“were I ever to be- come monarch of England, I would ha... ...y that your Grace should en- dure the transgressions of these unprincipled marauders, but that you should afford them your protection, notwithstand- i... ... but one road to safety,” continued the Prince, and his brow grew black as midnight; “this object of our ter- ror journeys alone—He must be met withal...

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...ult if no disaster befell the travellers. Hugh talked of the Schlangenwald marauders with the bit- terness of a deadly feud, but manifestly did not br... ...oppel, and a troop of serfs, fell on 178 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest the marauders before they had effected much damage, and while some remained to ... ...e my lute; it would be using it ill not to let it enjoy such a chance as a midnight watch.” So away went the light-hearted boy, and by and by Chris- t... ... of the Blessed Friedmund.” “Nay, at this rate thou wilt not be there till midnight,” said the young knight, springing off his horse; “thou canst neve...

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...r baggage at the station, passed the day in beer saloons, and with congenial spirits, until midnight struck. Then they ap- plied themselves to find a ... ... whence, from some high spur, their timid scouts might overlook the coming and going of the marauders, and see the harvest ridden down, and church and...

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...place, and she consented, only looking at her watch and saying it was near midnight, so that the time was short. M. Voiture, the poet, carried round a... ...Prince’s camp that the pride of la grand Anglaise should be subdued before midnight. The dragoon had not ventured to come any farther than Maison Darp... ...the morning?’ I said. ‘Did she not know that the horrible wager related to midnight?’ She supposed any woman could take care of herself. At any rate I... ...anced, and though he took no one’s part, he felled the roads with horrible marauders trained in the Thirty Year’s War. The two armies of Conde and T u... ...too far, or whether he was not sincere, the tumult did not quiet down till midnight. After all, the rogues had the worst of it, for two hundred bodies...

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...lton’s morning hymn in Paradise, we would hold a good wager, was penned at midnight; and T aylor’s rich description of a sunrise smells decidedly of t... ...n associations.” Yes, and the burglar, who leaves an army-tailor’s after a midnight visit, trails after him perhaps a long roll of gold bullion epaule... ...a plea, masking itself in patriotism, for gatherings everywhere of lawless marauders; of soldiers that had deserted their banners; and of robbers by p... ...n deliverer. Coming, however, at length to a heath, he found some of those marauders usually to be met with in the rear of armies, prowling about, and...

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...essary to replenish the fire from time to time in order to keep the adventurous marauders at safer distance. “I’ve hearn sailors talk of sharks followi... ...e time he suspected nothing. That night he waited for the master to return. At midnight the chill wind that blew drove him to shelter at the rear of t...

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... throughout the night. At daybreak they limped warily back to camp, to find the marauders gone and the two men in bad tempers. Fully half their grub su... ... were true. They went across divides in summer blizzards, shivered un der the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber line and the eternal... ... up and down. But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, r...

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...n is, what was Harry Esmond’s anguish after being an actor in that ghastly midnight scene of blood and homicide. He could not, he felt, have faced his... ...back my 6 Henry Esmond – Book Two husband, Henry. Why did you stand by at midnight and see him murdered? Why did the traitor escape who did it? Y ou,... ... camp; nor on shore before the enemy; nor at sea under the stars of solemn midnight; nor as he watched the glorious rising of the dawn: not even at th... ...er. And so, the sylvester night passed away; the family parted long before midnight, Lady Castlewood remembering, no doubt, former New Y ears’ Eves, w... ... there had no doubt been an end of Esmond here, and of this his story. The marauders were out riffling the bodies as they lay on the field, and Jack h... ...tely built. He knocked down a proctor’s man that wanted to arrest him in a midnight prank; he gave a dinner-party on the Prince of Wales’s birthday, w... ...illies. Honest Lockwood, Esmond’s servant, no doubt wanted to be among the marauders himself and take his share of the booty; for when, the action ove...

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... for one man at Milan there were no hymns, no shouts of ‘glad tidings!’ no midnight festival, no rejoicing that ‘to us a Child is born; to us a Son is... ... to his fame to have sailed forth as a sea rover, yet the attacks of these marauders might be bought off, and provided they had treasure to show for t... ...ng in summer stillness, and the harvest fields whose crops are secure from marauders, and the congregation then proceed to the small chapel, the walls... ...est on the ivied walls. 160 A Book of Golden Deeds Within their tower the midnight hour Has wrapt the babes in sleep, With unclosed eyes their mothe... ...ficient protection. Himself and his horse were, however, spent by the wild midnight ride, and on the border of the wood of Eterlein, near the monaster... ...it, nor was any aid near to restore the old man’s ebbing strength. T oward midnight the Earl’s old comrade Essex had time to understand his condition,...

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...stened upon the weak or exposed parts of the encampment, and waiting until midnight should have buried the majority of their wearied party into the pr... ...rm as in the perfect darkness which reigned in both at this solemn hour of midnight, stretching away apparently without end, but more and more obscure... ...ged contrivances, have more fully at- tained that end. It was yet short of midnight by more than an hour; and therefore, on the suggestion of Maximili... ...ned in diplomatic trans- actions with the most distinguished amongst them. Midnight insensibly surprised them whilst pursuing the many interesting his... ... they were naturally afraid of drawing upon their track any fresh party of marauders, by so open a warning of their course as the sound of a trumpet. ... ...or my determined rattling. At this time, I must not stay. Come again after midnight—farewell.” And then, in a voice to reach his guests within, he sho...

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...e the swiftest vessel in attendance on your father the King, if we sail at midnight!’ Then the Prince commanded to make merry; and the sailors drank o... ...t of the senior monks in the appointment of his successor, met together at midnight, secretly elected a certain Reginald, and sent him off to Rome to... ...go straight to Mortimer’s room. Accordingly, upon a certain dark night, at midnight, they made their way through this dismal place: startling the rats... ...untry, full of the Duke of Burgundy’s men, and of all kinds of robbers and marauders, until they came to where this lord was. When his servants told h... ... trial of Sir Walter Raleigh lasted from eight in the morning until nearly midnight; he defended himself with such eloquence, genius, and spirit again... ...with such difficulties as these, and he soon cut them short by bursting at midnight into the town of Burford, near Salisbury, where the mutineers were...

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... home? Is anything going on?” “Chiefly defence of the copses from primrose marauders. You know the great agitation. They want to set up a china clay f... ...tain debts and difficul- 195 Yo n g e ties, all conspired to occasion the midnight flitting in such a manner as to prevent the circus from being purs...

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...ill ring through all Paris! Yes, and shake Rochefoucauld out of his bed at midnight! You will be one of us, Ribaumont? I command it!’ And without wait... ...cesses; but Eustacie could not escape from it till it was al- ready almost midnight, the period for her tryst. Her heart was very full. It was not the... ...l the lights were out, and not a sound did we hear till just an hour after midnight. Then a big bell rang out, not like a decent Christianable bell, b... ...he any tokens to send him, save what he had received on the St. Barthelemy midnight; they might further his suit elsewhere. These, Mon- sieur, were he... ... I am well enough, Blaise will send out messages, and they will meet me at midnight at the cross-roads, Martin and all, for dear good Martin is quite ... ...ing this request?’ ‘Have you men enough to take with you to guard you from marauders?’ ‘I have but two servants, Sire, and I have left them with the w...

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...t tell. He stoutly kept his promise to the Father of not prying, and if at midnight from his little room he heard noises of persons stirring in the ne... ...or last night, and—and before,” said my lady, “and saw them at cards after midnight; no estate will bear that extravagance, much less ours, which will... ...y, and be no more questioned than the Grand seignior who drowns a slave at midnight. He may make slaves and hypocrites of his children; or friends and... ...men were 150 Henry Esmond set down opposite the “Standard Tavern.” It was midnight, and the town was abed by this time, and only a few lights in the ... ...n is, what was Harry Esmond’s anguish after being an actor in that ghastly midnight scene of blood and homicide. He could not, he felt, have faced his... ... there had no doubt been an end of Esmond here, and of this his story. The marauders were out riffling the bodies as they lay on the field, and Jack h... ...illies. Honest Lockwood, Esmond’s servant, no doubt wanted to be among the marauders himself and take his share of the booty; for when, the action ove...