Political fiction
Gentlemen, welcome! ladies, that have their toes Unplagu’d with corns, will have a bout with you: Aha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty, she, I’ll swear hath corns; am I come near you now? You are welcome, gentlemen!--Come, musician...
Gentlemen, welcome! ladies, that have their toes Unplagu’d with corns, will have a bout with you: Aha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now deny to dance? she that makes dai...
2. CHAPTER II.The night was dark and stormy, a circumstance of which most of the revellers amid the dust and noise and glare of the ball-room were, or affected to be, unconscious. True, the p...
3. CHAPTER III.Helen had been but four-and-twenty hours returned when her mother expired in her arms; and as she slowly recovered from the immediate stupor of despair, the first sound that jar...
4. CHAPTER IV.This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again, when God doth please: He is wit’s pedlar, and retails his wares At wakes, and wassels, meetings, markets, fairs;...
5. CHAPTER V.After the abrupt termination of Oakley’s last interview with Helen, he had quitted Lady Latimer’s lodgings in a state of mind bordering on distraction; and could Helen have seen...
6. CHAPTER VI.Oh that I knew he were but in by the week! How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek, And wait the season, and observe the times, And shape his service wholly to my behests.
7. CHAPTER VII.----His addiction was to courses vain, His companies unlettered, rude, and shallow, His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports; And never noted in him any study, Any retir...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Is all the counsel that we two have shar’d, The sisters’ vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us,--Oh! and is all forgot?
9. CHAPTER IX.You look upon that sleeve; behold it well.-- O, all you gods!--O pretty, pretty pledge! Nay, do not snatch it from me; He that takes this, must take my heart withal.
10. CHAPTER X.You remember The daughter of this lord? Admiringly; my high-repented blames, Dear sovereign, pardon to me. All is whole; Not one word more of the consumed time. Let’s take the i...
11. CHAPTER XI.“_You_ do--which is more to the purpose,” answered Fitzalbert. “Did I not always say it would be so? I shall set up for a prophet; for did I not also foresee that you would firs...
12. CHAPTER XII.“We could not make a House: it is the day of the Derby,” said a treasury-hack to Oakley, as he met him in Parliament-street. And that is not the only house by many thousands tha...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart! My dearest lord, blest, to be most accursed, Rich, only to be wretched;--thy great fortunes Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas,...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Biron, Before I saw you; and the world’s large tongue Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks, Full of comparisons and winding flouts, Which...
15. CHAPTER XV.I thank you, gracious lord, For all your fair endeavours; and entreat Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe In your rich wisdom, to excuse, or hide The liberal opposition of...
16. CHAPTER XV.Speak, is’t so? If it be so, you have wound a goodly clue; If it be not, forswear’t; howe’er, I charge thee, As heaven shall work in me for mine avail, To tell me truly.
17. CHAPTER XVI.By Oakley’s will, which bore the date of the evening before the duel, and in framing which, he had been engaged when visited by Lord Latimer, his immense property was divided be...