damsel

In the original it ran, '"How it came about that ye good Knight Sir Agravaine ye Dolorous of ye Table Round did fare forth to succour a damsel in distress and after divers journeyings and perils by flood and by field did win her for his bride and right happily did they twain live ever afterwards," by Ambrose ye monk.'

'Your majesty,' he cried, 'a damsel in distress waits without.'

``Proud damsel,'' said De Bracy, incensed at finding his gallant style procured him nothing but contempt ``proud damsel, thou shalt be as proudly encountered.

Knowest thou not there is a jealousy of ambition and of wealth, as well as of love; and that this our host, Front-de-B uf, will push from his road him who opposes his claim to the fair barony of Ivanhoe, as readily, eagerly, and unscrupulously, as if he were preferred to him by some blue-eyed damsel? But smile on my suit, lady, and the wounded champion shall have nothing to fear from Front-de-B uf, whom else thou mayst mourn for, as in the hands of one who has never shown compassion.''

During the festival, I had noticed several young females whose skins were almost as white as any Saxon damsel's; a slight dash of the mantling brown being all that marked the difference.

Nothing, therefore, can be imagined more singular than the appearance of these nearly naked damsels immediately after the application of the cosmetic.

"'The Good Judgment of Madame the Virgin,'--a morality, if you please, damsel."

"What would you have of me, damsels?" he asked, with alacrity.

Of a lion worthy, Or perhaps of a virtuous howl-monkey-- --But it's naught to you, Ye friendly damsels dearly loved, At whose own feet to me, The first occasion, To a European under palm-trees, A seat is now granted.

Here do I sit now, The desert nigh, and yet I am So far still from the desert, Even in naught yet deserted: That is, I'm swallowed down By this the smallest oasis--: --It opened up just yawning, Its loveliest mouth agape, Most sweet-odoured of all mouthlets: Then fell I right in, Right down, right through--in 'mong you, Ye friendly damsels dearly loved!