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pink and pattern of the gallantest brewer , and might have deserved a fairer ( if that were possible ) maiden ' s eye , Leuchidde had numerous loving attendants , of various heights and rotundities ; but in this impersonated geography incontestably there was more of latitude than longitude . She however was modest , as that flower which always closes its
eyes at the rising of the sun , and never opens them at evening . In her progress to church her eyes were always bent to the ground , and the secret of her loveliness was confided to the folds of a scarf of double silk , so thick that the sharpest of amorous glances might not pierce it . Within this cavern of silkhoweverlike a wanton
witchlihtLeu-, , g , chidde concealed mischief and merriment enough ; and often when her old neighbours compassionately attributed certain convulsive movements perceivable in her wimple to cough , the truth was , that all the time she was only laughing at the grave gallants who , some as attenuated as gliding fishingrods , and others as rotund and ungraceful as rolling runlets ,
were haunting her footsteps . So droll , indeed , sometimes was this procession , that two files of this enamoured gentry have been known to unconsciously encounter at the church door , ancl then after fierce looks , rebuked by the great organ heard from withinside , to turn on their heel , and disappear backwards along either side of the edifice .
So tantalizing was the temper of this Leyden nymjjh , that besides those in love --vith her , whose movements from the intoxication of their passion should naturally be unsteady , she puzzled her old father , who , in his nightly conferences with his ancient Church Worthies , would complain with more of asperity than otherwise became the sugar of his natural
disposition . Leuchidde , being a beauty , had of course the privilege to be wilful and despotic . But she ruled with a rod of iron , or rather she ironed out her gallants flat . She set them such impossible tasks , to prove their devotion , that many gave her up in despair and vowed she was worse than the Inquisition , for that she devised more unheard-of
torments . Besides being a lovely creature , Leuchidde boasted of accomplishments in the shape of four corpulent bags of gold , which were so unnaturally distended , that had their disease been of a less assuasive character , it woulcl have been agonizing to contemplate them . Theirs was a sort of yellow hydrocephalus , except that the disorder , instead of being in the head , was in the stomach . So munificently had these VOL . in . 2 s
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Brass Thumb.
pink and pattern of the gallantest brewer , and might have deserved a fairer ( if that were possible ) maiden ' s eye , Leuchidde had numerous loving attendants , of various heights and rotundities ; but in this impersonated geography incontestably there was more of latitude than longitude . She however was modest , as that flower which always closes its
eyes at the rising of the sun , and never opens them at evening . In her progress to church her eyes were always bent to the ground , and the secret of her loveliness was confided to the folds of a scarf of double silk , so thick that the sharpest of amorous glances might not pierce it . Within this cavern of silkhoweverlike a wanton
witchlihtLeu-, , g , chidde concealed mischief and merriment enough ; and often when her old neighbours compassionately attributed certain convulsive movements perceivable in her wimple to cough , the truth was , that all the time she was only laughing at the grave gallants who , some as attenuated as gliding fishingrods , and others as rotund and ungraceful as rolling runlets ,
were haunting her footsteps . So droll , indeed , sometimes was this procession , that two files of this enamoured gentry have been known to unconsciously encounter at the church door , ancl then after fierce looks , rebuked by the great organ heard from withinside , to turn on their heel , and disappear backwards along either side of the edifice .
So tantalizing was the temper of this Leyden nymjjh , that besides those in love --vith her , whose movements from the intoxication of their passion should naturally be unsteady , she puzzled her old father , who , in his nightly conferences with his ancient Church Worthies , would complain with more of asperity than otherwise became the sugar of his natural
disposition . Leuchidde , being a beauty , had of course the privilege to be wilful and despotic . But she ruled with a rod of iron , or rather she ironed out her gallants flat . She set them such impossible tasks , to prove their devotion , that many gave her up in despair and vowed she was worse than the Inquisition , for that she devised more unheard-of
torments . Besides being a lovely creature , Leuchidde boasted of accomplishments in the shape of four corpulent bags of gold , which were so unnaturally distended , that had their disease been of a less assuasive character , it woulcl have been agonizing to contemplate them . Theirs was a sort of yellow hydrocephalus , except that the disorder , instead of being in the head , was in the stomach . So munificently had these VOL . in . 2 s