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Entirely against the advice of the States-General of the obedient provinces, he denounced the mutineers as outlaws and accursed.

But she relied upon her father's word and her august brother's love, and hoped that this little one should be spared. The same accursed hand tore this infant out of its mother's bosom, and killed it. The poor woman's heart broke outright at this second calamity, and she died.

"Wilfred, son of the Thane of Aescendune, in Mercia." "Hast thou been in the battle?" "Only since all was over, or I had died by his side." "The saints have preserved thee for better things than to die in a cause accursed by the Church. Nay, my son, I blame thee not, thou art too young to know better."

He would not let me go, and he came back and tried to keep me I do not know how I escaped. God helped me. He is so brave and noble that if he had held those accursed papers in his hands and known all the truth he would not have given me up. He would have brought a stain on his great name, and shame upon his great house for my sake. He is not like you.

May the grave of his fathers be accursed, and his bones be burned," and, after uttering this anathema, he drove the rowels of his spurs into his horse's flanks, springing him, at least, two lengths in advance of his followers, and making a dash for the bush from whence the smoke of the rifle was seen to issue.

Down with her, down into the darkest dungeon! MORTIMER. What is the matter? What has passed? PAULET. The queen! Accursed hand! Infernal machination! MORTIMER. The queen! What queen? PAULET. What queen! The Queen of England; She has been murdered on the road to London. MORTIMER, soon after O'KELLY. Am I then mad? Came not one running by But now, and cried aloud, the queen is murdered! No, no!

"I wish," said Mochuda, "that the hand you laid on me may be accursed and that the face you turned against me to expel me from my home may be repulsive and scrofulous for the remainder of your life." This curse was effective for the man's eye was thereupon destroyed in his head.

"Oh! Haydée, Haydée," he sobbed; "thrice accursed be the infamous wretch who has done this!" "Edmond, my children, farewell," gasped Haydée; "I am going to a better land!"

It was proved that Egmont had united with the confederates; that he had been a party to the accursed conspiracy of the Prince of Orange; that he had taken the rebel nobles under his protection, and that he had betrayed the Government and the Holy Catholic Church by his conduct in Flanders.

He looked back upon his aged father's enduring struggle upon the battle of the old man's heart against the accursed vice which had swayed its impulses so long on the protracted conflict between the two energies, which, like contending fivmies in the field, had now left little but ruin and desolation behind them.