Trust not to the public; you may hang, starve, drown yourself, for anything that worthy personage cares.

The following day he was again denied a sight of her, and as he turned once more from the house he saw a great personage drive up in a magnificent carriage.

'The household are all up, my lady,' said that important personage entering; ''tis a beautiful morning.

If he were a high personage incognito, I was not to know it.

Of course there would have been no profit or entertainment in discussing these recondite subjects with a savage such as Verty had appeared to be upon their former interview, when, with his long, tangled hair, hunter's garb, and old slouched hat, he resembled an inhabitant of the backwoodswhat could such a personage know of divine philosophy, or what pleasure could a lady take in his society?no pleasure, evidently.

" Hereupon I bethought me of looking immediately before my nose, and there, sure enough, confronting me at the table sat a personage nondescript, although not altogether indescribable.

At other times, the whole breadth of the street would be taken up, and the busy stream of human beings completely stopped by the litter of some rich or noble personage proceeding to his place of business.

All she could do was not to make confusion, make mixtures, of the living; though she asked herself enough what mixture she mightn't find herself to have prepared if Mr. French should, not so very impossibly, for a restless, roaming manher effect on him!happen to pass while she sat there with the mustachioed personage round whose name Mrs. Maule would probably have caused detrimental anecdote most thickly to cluster.

Then also me seemeth the work too base for his excellent lordship, being made in honour of a priuate personage vnknowne, which of some ylwillers might be vpbraided, not to be so worthie as you knowe she is; or the matter not so weightie that it should be offred to so weightie a personage, or the like.