Vagabond
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Or is there such virtue in the rude rhymes of a wandering bard, that domestic love, kindly affection, peace and happiness, are so wildly bartered, to become the hero of those ballads which
vagabond
minstrels sing to drunken churls over their evening ale?""By the soul of Hereward!" replied the knight impatiently, "thou speakest, maiden, of thou knowest not what.
"How?" exclaimed the Templar; "deliver up our prisoners, and stand an object alike of ridicule and execration, as the doughty warriors who dared by a night-attack to possess themselves of the persons of a party of defenceless travellers, yet could not make good a strong castle against a
vagabond
troop of outlaws, led by swineherds, jesters, and the very refuse of mankind?--Shame on thy counsel, Maurice de Bracy!--The ruins of this castle shall bury both my body and my shame, ere I consent to such base and dishonourable composition."
His old
vagabond
nature returned to him; the fantastic ideas of his youth once more took possession of him.
I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
He knew his own
vagabond
unreason so well!
It was no longer a torturing mortalpain, but the frenzy of a forlorn and homeless animal, the physicalanguish of a
vagabond
creature without a roof for shelter, lashed by therain, the wind, the storm, all the brutal forces of the universe.
And he was condemned to this
vagabond
convict's life solely because hismother had yielded to a man's caresses.
"A vagabond?"
"A vagabond."
"So you will be a vagabond, you knave?" he said to our poet.
And then?""If you succeed in removing the purse without our hearing the bells, you are a vagabond, and you will be thrashed for eight consecutive days.
"And a vagabond," resumed Clopin, "and a vagabond; is that nothing?
"Bellevigne de l'Etoile," said the King of Thunes to an enormous vagabond, who stepped out from the ranks, "climb upon the cross beam."
You must wed either a female
vagabond
or the noose."
"Your purse?""Alas!" stammered Gringoire, "I have not even a sou.""Let them hang you, then, and say 'Thank you!'" retorted the
vagabond
wench, turning her back on him.
That is a trade which one can always adopt when one is a vagabond, and it's better than stealing, as some young brigands of my acquaintance advised me to do.
In that case I shall become a professional vagabond."
Listen to me, my friends; I am a
vagabond
to the bottom of my heart, I am a member of the slang thief gang in my soul, I was born an independent thief.
In turning vagabond, I have gladly renounced the half of a house situated in paradise, which my brother had promised me.
"Let us make another trial," resumed the
vagabond.
The scholar finally reached the balcony of the gallery, and climbed over it nimbly, to the applause of the whole
vagabond
tribe.
A soldier pointed out to the king a billhook which he had seized on the person of the
vagabond.
He gave an order in a low voice to two archers, who led away the poor
vagabond.
Your majesty sees that the
vagabond
did not recognize me.
I have a fine, strapping girl myself; she's just twenty, and when a girl of that age comes here I think of her, and I don't care if it's a great lady or a vagabond, I can't help feeling it a bit.
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