. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. officerstook possession of his palace, gave up theprincesses to the hcentious brutality of theRoman soldiers, and scourged the queen inpublic. Bonduca, roused to vengeance, Arthur Bonnicastk and MillieBradford 7t /TILLIE and I quietly walked to the shore, unnoticed hy anyJ- VJ. of them. She took het seat in the boat, and shoving it fromthe sand, I sprang in after her, and -we were afloat andfree upon the moonlit water. For some minutes, I did not touch theoars, hut let the boat drift out with the impulse I had given it, whilewe watched th
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. officerstook possession of his palace, gave up theprincesses to the hcentious brutality of theRoman soldiers, and scourged the queen inpublic. Bonduca, roused to vengeance, Arthur Bonnicastk and MillieBradford 7t /TILLIE and I quietly walked to the shore, unnoticed hy anyJ- VJ. of them. She took het seat in the boat, and shoving it fromthe sand, I sprang in after her, and -we were afloat andfree upon the moonlit water. For some minutes, I did not touch theoars, hut let the boat drift out with the impulse I had given it, whilewe watched the outlines of the white tents against the sky and the groupswhich the camp fires made fantastic. After a while spent in silence, I took the oars, and as quietly aspossible rowed out into the middle of the lake. The deep blue sky andthe bright moon were above us, and the pure water below, and all thesounds that came to us from the shore were softened into music. J. G. Hollands Arthur Bonnicastk. A ^\\ \o ^\w;\v« i^\ oXv*^ \fto >ii^j«)-\ %\iiV/y.^. ARTHUR BONNICASTLE AND MILLIE BRADFORD. BONDUCA 149 BONNIVAED assembled an army, burnt the Roman col-onies of London, Colchester [Camalodu-num], Verulam, etc., and slew above 80,000Romans. Subsequently, Suetonius Pauli-nus defeated the Britons, and Bonducapoisoned herself, 61. John Fletcherwrote a tragedy entitled Bonduca (1647). Bone-setter {The), Sarah Mapp (died1736). Boney, a famihar contraction of Bo-naparte (3 syl.), used by the English in theearly part of the nineteenth century byway of depreciation. Thus Thom. Moorespeaks of the infidel Boney. Bonhomme (Jacques), a peasant whointerferes with politics; hence the peas-ants rebellion of 1358 was caUed LaJacquerie. The words may be rendered Jimmy or Johnny Goodfellow. Boniface (St.), an Anglo-Saxon whosename was Winifrid or Winfrith, born inDevonshire. He was made archbishop ofMayence by pope Gregory III., and iscalled The Apostle of the Germans. was murdered
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