If our
young person hadn’t had the nurse part cut out, eh? She might have known more
and done less. The above
description of
—the great Figg, by the prize-fighting swains
Sole monarch acknowledged of Mary'bone plains—
may sound somewhat tame by the side of the glowing account given of him by
his gallant biographer, who asserts that "there was a majesty shone in his
countenance, and blazed in his actions, beyond all I ever saw;" but it may,
possibly, convey a more accurate notion of his personal appearance. Ann Veronica paused before she answered. Having accomplished his intent, Gerald let the lad go and had himself driven
back to Stratton Street. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. "You were watched to-night by Blueskin. She seemed to grow more
beautiful to him and not the opposite. This time you cannot. ”
It was nearly half an hour before they dared ask him the question. “The unaccountable thing is that I wouldn’t go home to
please her. ”
“I won’t keep you very long, daddy,” said Ann Veronica. I am called Melusine. "Perhaps he means well.
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