"But from what I hear, Sir Isaac, you are the late man, too," interposed Fisher.
"It wants patience to wait for them, no doubt," said Sir Isaac, "and skill to play them, but I'm generally pretty lucky at it."
He managed to catch Lord Merivale before Sir Isaac bore him off for the final interview.
What is all this botheration about Sir Isaac and the rest of you?
Sir Isaac Hook was still sitting propped up against the stump of the tree, and that for the best of reasons.
'Can't I let him speak,' sneered Isaac in reply, mimicking as nearly as he could, in his shrill voice, the tones of the landlord.
That indeed,' said Isaac; 'if that's what the gentleman meant, I beg the gentleman's pardon.
'The gentleman has thought better of it, and isn't coming,' said Isaac, making as though he would rise from the table.
Probably the same motives which induced Cedric to open his hall to this son of a rejected people, would have made him insist on his attendants receiving Isaac with more courtesy.
``Unbelieving dog,'' said the Templar to Isaac the Jew, as he passed him in the throng, ``dost thou bend thy course to the tournament?''
``I do so propose,'' replied Isaac, bowing in all humility, ``if it please your reverend valour.''
Isaac knew the temperature of his frames to the twentieth part of a degree.
Besides, Isaac had made the discovery that too much sun was injurious to tulips, and that this flower grew quicker, and had a better colouring, with the temperate warmth of morning, than with the powerful heat of the midday sun.
Maybe this was not quite in accordance with the true state of things in general, and of Isaac Boxtel's feelings in particular.
"I know a story about
Isaac Frewen," said the Story Girl.
