ed at six o'clock, Nicholas Alwyn arrived

ad sauntered in extreme weariness and impatience into the little withdrawing-closet, where as it was now dusk, burned a single candle in a melancholy and rustic sconce; s

Thine arm swathed up, thy locks shorn, thy face blanched! My honoured

ts to let out the surplusage," returned Marmaduke;

night walk near London than in the loneliest glens of green Sherwood-more shame to the city! An' I be Lord Mayor one of these days, I will look to it better. But our civil wars make men ho

keep his own life with his own right hand merits well to hap-lose it; and I, for one, shall think ill of the day when an Englishman looks mo

thou hast some days yet to rest here and grow stout, for I would not have thee present thyself with a visage of chalk to a man who values his kind mainly by their thews and their sinews. Moreover, thou shouldst send for the tailor, and get thee trimmed to the mark. It would be a long step in thy path to promotion, an' the earl would take thee in his train; and the g

an' thou wilt send me my mails. For the r

est to have got into a poor house,-a decay

ngs of the timbrel-girls, and the "awsome" learning and strange pursuits of his host. As for Sibyll, he was evidently inclined to attribute to glamour the reluctant a

ewd sarcasm which mainly characterized his intelligent face, but

, verily, my dear foster-brother, thou must mend and not mar thy fortune, by thy love matters; and keep thy heart whole for some fair one with marks in her gipsire, whom the earl may find out for thee. Love and raw pease are two ill things in the porridge-pot. But the father!-I mind me now that I have heard of his name, through my frie

d with a stiff and ungraceful embarrassment, which often at first did injustice to his

o himself, "I ever saw that had the sense o

l, with a glance at the goldsmith. "He is welco

A humble name, but good Saxon,-which, I ta

rgive thee so readily for thy espial of

eeding the gay rebuke-"why, this is a master-hand. My Lord Scales-nay,

in that admiration which raised the spirits of Sibyll, which gave her hope when hope was well-nigh gone; and she became so vivacious, so debonair, so charming, in the flow of a gayety natural to her, and very uncommon with English maidens, but which she took partly, perhaps, from her F

or I am sharp set!" muttered Marmaduke

. There is eno' in her to furnish forth twenty court beauties. B

aduke; and both the young men sunk into sil

to rouse their host from his lethargy, and to absorb all the notice of Sibyll; and the surprise was increased, whe

y deft and worthy friend Master Caxto

ched; and that he hopes, ere long, to show the Englishers how to make fifty, a hundred,-nay even five hundred exemplars of t

ity; and who would care for a book, if five hundred others had precisely the same?-allowing always, good Nicholas, for thy friend's vaunting and over-crowing. Fiv

dained. Certes, Master Alwyn," he added, turning to the goldsmith, "this achievement maybe readily performed, and hath existed, I heard an ingenious Fleming say years ago, for many ages

verse with me, so that I venture to say, from my knowledge of his affection to all excellent craft an

aimed Adam, rubbing his hands.

at inve

tice or journeyman; will move wagons and litters without horses; will direct ships withou

contrast was so forcible, that she could not restrain her laughter, though, the moment after, a keen pang shot through her heart. The worthy Marmaduke had been in the act of conveying his cup to his lips; the cup stood arrested midway, his jaws dropped, his eyes op

ure my poor fathe

every dissour and jongleur tells us of in his stories of Merlin? Gentle maiden," he added earnestly, drawing nearer to her, and whispering in a

ent to the heart thus appealed to. Marmaduke also rose, and followed her into the parlour, or withdrawing-closet, while Adam and the goldsmith continued to converse (though Alwyn's eye followed the y

h are not always above aid, even from such as I am. If you would sell these blazoned manuscripts, I can not only obtain you a noble purchaser in my Lord Scales, or in my Lord Hast

sake that these labours were wrought. We are poor and friendless. Take the m

great man," said A

, they would stone him," replied

on of a mind less uncongenial than he had encountered for many years, seemed about to address him-here, I s

ou. I shall find a boat near York House; so pleasant night and quick cure to the

d carle puts my heart in a tremble. Moreover, buy me a gittern-a brave one-for the damozel. She is too proud to take money, and, 'fore Heaven, I ha

hment, called "the Wines," consisting of spiced hippocras and confe