Crossword-Solution: SCANTS 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Howe'er that be, She scants me of my right, Is cunning careful evermore to balk Sweet separate talk, And fevers my delight By frets, if, on Amelia's cheek of peach, I touch the notes which music cannot reach, Bidding 'Good-night!' Wherefore it came that, till to-day's dear date, I curs'd the weary months which yet I have to wait Ere I find heaven, one-nested with my mate.

His heavy force Scants good opinion somewhat, yet I know There's honor, aye, and kindness in this Chief.

But when the grudging spinner scants Her thread and fate no surcease grants From grief most deep and need most wearing, Less calm our bearing.

Has not life itself perhaps become a little more prosaic than it once was? As the clearing away of the woods scants the streams, may not our civilization have dried up some feeders that helped to swell the current of individual and personal force? We have sometimes thought that the stricter definition and consequent seclusion from each other of the different callings in modern times, as it narrowed the chance of developing and giving variety to character, lessened also the interest of biography.

The time scants us for a dinner before the service in the church at Gernicour, and we must hasten or we be late.