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Sommers had edged her into a protected corner formed by a large telephone post. The jostling people stared impudently at the prettily dressed young woman. To their eyes she betrayed herself at a glance as one of the privileged, who used the banned Pullman cars. "Whar's your kerridge?" a woman called out over Sommers's shoulder. A man pushed him rudely into his companion.
In a few minutes Sibyll rejoined Marmaduke, who had returned to the hall, and informed him that her father had lain down a while to compose himself. "It is a hard fate, sir," said the girl, with a faint smile, "a hard fate, to be banned and accursed by the world, only because one has sought to be wiser than the world is."
"Gold will do much; there are many about the court of Oliver who love the yellow colour and the pleasant chink of coin." "No, I have other and stronger means of buying mercy. But mercy is not all I want I sometimes think, that were I to walk up to Whitehall, banned as I am, Cromwell would not touch a hair of my head.
We worked together and we went into the desert together with the others when the government banned our experiments. "But Goat was the man who sold out. He betrayed us to the government for what price I don't know. And when government agents raided us and broke up our organization and captured me, Goat Hennessey kidnapped my young and pregnant wife, and I never saw her again.
Whence it came, that, to a stranger, the whole isle looked care-free and beautiful. Deep among the ravines and the rocks, these beings lived in noisome caves, lairs for beasts, not human homes; or built them coops of rotten boughs living trees were banned them whose mouldy hearts hatched vermin.
No more should all the nobler services of his native land be closed to him, his faith be banned, his priests proscribed! No more should he be driven to sell his valour to the highest bidder, and pour forth his blood in foreign causes, under the walls of old Vienna, and on every stricken field from Almanza to the Don.
But Conradin said nothing: there was nothing to be said. Something perhaps in his white set face gave her a momentary qualm, for at tea that afternoon there was toast on the table, a delicacy which she usually banned on the ground that it was bad for him; also because the making of it "gave trouble," a deadly offence in the middle-class feminine eye.
The old Rabelaisianism was toned down to something like decency and at least the grosser vulgarities of the music-hall stage were banned by common consent. The little indecencies, the sly allusions, the candour of French comedy remained, and often it was only stupidity which made one laugh.
She declared that he had ceased to care for the lighter ways. There had certainly been a time when her complaints had been apparently justified, when the Opera had been banned, theatres were impossible, when she could not even rely upon his escort to a dinner or to a reception. He had argued with her very patiently at first but very unsuccessfully.
Or, as another translation has it: "If a man ban a man and cast a spell on him if he cannot justify it he who has banned shall be killed." "If a man has cast a spell on a man and has not justified it, he on whom the spell has been thrown shall go to the River God, and plunge into the river. If the River God takes him he who has banned him shall be saved.
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