Archer; and I recommend him to take him in - a friend of mine - and Mr. Archer will pay, as I wrote. And I regard that in the light of a precious good thing for Holdaway, let me tell you, and a set-off against the wages.'
'But O, my lord!' cried Nance, 'we live upon the wages, and what are we to do without?'
'What am I to do? - what am I to do?' replied Lord Windermoor with some exasperation. 'I have no wages. And there is Mr. Archer. And if Holdaway doesn't like it, he can go to the devil, and you with him!英文原著 · 《Lay Morals》
Archer,' replied the girl. 'I had a bad piece, and I fear it is mixed up among the good.'
'Well, well,' replied Mr. Archer, smiling, 'I must take the merchant's risk of it. The money is now mixed.'
'I know my piece,' quoth Nance. 'Come, let me see your silver, Mr. Archer. If I have to get it by a theft I'll see that money,' she cried. 'Nay, child, if you put as much passion to be honest as the world to steal, I must give way, though I betray myself,' said Mr.英文原著 · 《Lay Morals》
The fourth outlaw his bow gan bend, And that was Robin Hood, And that beheld the proud sher-iff, All by the butt he stood. Thri-es Robin shot about, And alway he cleft the wand, And so did good Gilbert, With the whit-e hand. Little John and good Scathelock Were archers good and free; Little Much and good Reynold, The worst would they not be. When they had shot about, These archers fair and good, Evermore was the best, For sooth, Robin Hood. Him was delivered the good arr-ow, For best worthy was he; He took the gift so courteysly To green wood wold-e he.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
It is no point of morals; both are wrong. Either way this step- child of Providence must fall; which shall he choose, by doing or not doing?'
'Fall, then, is what I would say,' replied Nance. 'Fall where you will, but do it! For O, Mr. Archer,' she continued, stooping to her work, 'you that are good and kind, and so wise, it doth sometimes go against my heart to see you live on here like a sheep in a turnip-field! If you were braver - ' and here she paused, conscience-smitten. 'Do I, indeed, lack courage?' inquired Mr. Archer of himself.英文原著 · 《Lay Morals》
Archer. 'And since I wish to have the odds against me, not only the other channel but yon stagnant water in the midst shall be for lying still. You see this?' he continued, pulling up a withered rush. 'I break it in three. I shall put each separately at the top of the upper fall, and according as they go by your way or by the other I shall guide my life.'
'This is very silly,' said Nance, with a movement of her shoulders. 'I do not think it so,' said Mr. Archer. 'And then,' she resumed, 'if you are to try your fortune, why not evenly?'
'Nay,' returned Mr.英文原著 · 《Lay Morals》
Epistolam Hanc Misi, Tunc Bene, Nunc Valde Ad Opus. Prepaid. ARCHER, Esq. Acting Registrar General, Melbourne. Ballaarat Gold-fields, Eureka, November 30, 1854. My dear Mr. Archer,
I was in some anxiety about you; not receiving any answer to my letter of the 17th October, and especially to that of the 22nd ditto. I was at Creswick's Creek, when I was informed that Father Smyth had a letter for me, and last Monday I returned to Ballaarat, where I received, through Messrs.英文原著 · 《The Eureka Stockade》