Now God pity Belsaye!" "Amen!" quoth Giles, fidgeting uneasily with his bow, "forsooth, Sir Robert is a very potent lordGod help us all, say I!"

"Aye," nodded Roger, loosening sword in sheath, "and Sir Robert is a dour fighter I've heard.

Robert, Earl of Gloucester, natural son of the late king, was a man of honour and abilities; and as he was much attached to the interests of his sister, Matilda, and zealous for the lineal succession, it was chiefly from his intrigues and resistance that the king had reason to dread a new revolution of government.

Lord Robert is a great expertcan make a motor, I believe, or take it to pieces and put it together again; and he'd been insisting for days that she would be able to drive this Rajah car.

Earl Robert, her brother, Brian Fitz-Count, Milo of Gloucester, and other great men, became guarantees for her observing these engagements [a]; and the prelate was at last induced to promise her allegiance, but that still burdened with the express condition, that she should, on her part, fulfil her promises.

Mrs. Robert was a good wife and did as she was bid.

Tell me, Wyandotté, how came you to discover that Robert was a prisoner, and by what means did he contrive to give you his letter?" The Indian assumed a look of pride, a little blended with hauteur; for he felt that he was manifesting the superiority of a red-man over the pale-face, as he related the means through which he had made his discoveries.

"That," said Robert, home from the front"that is simply a sentimental point of view.

"Wherefore at his death," says his biographer Helgaud, "there were great mourning and intolerable grief; a countless number of widows and orphans sorrowed for the many benefits received from him; they did beat their breasts and went to and from his tomb, crying, 'Whilst Robert was king and ordered all, we lived in peace, we had nought to fear.

" Robert was a lover of humanity, and in a moment he had taken sides.

They smothered the fire carefully, and then, Robert was sufficient master of his nerves, to go to sleep, wrapped in the invaluable buffalo robe.

Marse Robert ain't a bit like him.

Robert and Sally and Lucythey was my brother and sistersall of them worked in the field.

It had also been suggested that Robert should be the other godfather,the proposal having been made to Mrs. Robert.

You do not seem pleased, my child?" "I wish Robert were not a soldier, mother.

Robert was seventeen or eighteen years of age, when he became acquainted with Giles Peram, a young man two or three years his senior.

Robert Were Fox and Mr. Robert Huntare of opinion that the force which has determined the cleavage of slates may be that of the electric currents, which (as is well known) run through the crust of the earth.

Robert was their hero.

Robert, his eldest son, surnamed Gambaron or Curthose, from his short legs, was a prince who inherited all the bravery of his family and nation; but without that policy and dissimulation, by which his father was so much distinguished, and which, no less than his military valour, had contributed to his great successes.

Mrs. Nicholas was in the habit of telling Mrs. Daniel that you cannot touch pitch and not be defiled,generally intending to imply that Mrs. Robert was the pitch; and would harp on the impossibility of serving both God and mammon, thinking perhaps that her brother-in-law Robert and mammon were one and the same.

"What grateful act of yours," he cried, "has shown that Count Robert was your uncle, and brought you up, and battled with Stephen for sixteen years for your sake, and for you was at last made captive?

" "She doesn't object to Robert being a father to her.

Robert was the messenger employed to and fro, but no one knew her name or rank; for, devoted as we well know he is to Ellen, he took the trouble of changing his livery for plain clothes, whenever Ellis sent him on his mission.

Price is a royalist while Robert is a Puritan and a republican.

Later entries show that Robert was a hosier to his trade.