That the tenant of Rannoch had kept that secret tryst in daily patience I knew from my own observations, yet to me it scarcely seemed feasible that he would use a weapon so peculiarly Italian and yet so terribly deadly.

The femur (left) and the metatarsal; The peeve (or pet peeve); The male and female tryst.

The femur (left) and the metatarsal; the peeve (or pet peeve); the male and female tryst.

He begged her to keep mental trysts with him, and, acknowledging a composition she had dedicated to him, he hinted: "If you were present, I would press your hand even without your father's leave.

Whenever Narcissus turned his gleaming spokes along some mapped, but none the less mysterious, countyroad, he thought of Lohengrin in his barge drawn by white swans to his mystic tryst; he thought of the seven-leagued boots, the flying carpet, the wishing-cap, and the wooden Pegasus,so called because it mounted into the clouds on the turning of a peg.

A mild, open flirtation with a recognized man like Brace, after her secret passionate tryst with a nameless nomad like Low, was an ethical equipoise that seemed proper to one of her religious education.

They did so, actually, once; succeeding years saw them no more at the solemn tryst.

I had suspected Leithcourt because of his constant trysts at that spot, but I had at least proved that my suspicions were entirely without foundation.

But she loses her life through the falling of an old, dilapidated castle wherein she has been keeping an unconventional tryst, and Cephalo becomes the intimate friend of the painter.

Next moment I realized that I was at that place where Leithcourt so persistently kept his disappointed tryst, having approached it from within the wood.

Was he sitting up all the night, unable to sleep because he waited breathlessly for that false tryst on the morrow?