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Howat Penny thought sombrely of love, of the emotion that had brought or betrayed? Isabel Howat so far away from her birthright. It had gripped his sister no less tyrannically; stripping them, he considered, of their essential liberty. The thing was clear enough in his mind nothing more than an animal instinct, humiliating to the human individual, to breed.
Men who regard their property, their liberty and their lives, will not yield them a willing sacrifice to the demands of the ambitious and unprincipled men who faced danger and braved death during a seven years war men whose veins are warm with the blood of their venerable ancestors who planted this happy state, and defended it amidst innumerable hardships and calamities men who deem their birthright sacred their own freedom valuable, and their children dear as their own blood, will not calmly, nor cowardly suffer those who have no claims but their impudence, to storm their fortress and to capture them.
The young Quaker, mature and manly for his years, took hold of business as if it had been his birthright. Perhaps it had come to him with the resemblance to his uncle. And when Philemon Nevitt decided to take back his father's name, Polly and Primrose rejoiced wildly. Primrose threw her arms around his neck and gave him many of the kisses she had used to be so chary about.
He is the born money-maker, bread-winner, provider the hüsbonda of our Anglo-Saxon ancestry and the pocket is his heraldic symbol, his birthright. The pocket question obtrudes itself at an alarmingly early period of married life whoever may be the moneyed member of the new firm.
The venerable William Arthur, a Nonconformist minister, says: "We will not be put under a Parliament in Dublin. The Imperial franchise and all which that guarantees is our birthright. No man shall take it from us. We will never sell it. If Englishmen and Scotchmen will not let us live and die in the freedom we were born to, they will have to come and kill us.
The crown was his own birthright. Were it elective he should receive the suffrages of the great mass of the electors. He hoped soon to drive those red-crossed foreigners out of his kingdom. Should he fail, they would end by expelling the Duke of Mayenne and all the rest who had called them in, and Paris would become the theatre of the bloodiest tragedy ever yet enacted.
With his arm over the horse's neck, the exile, who had returned to his birthright, stood silent a while, gazing out over the land on which his eyes never wearied of resting; the glad, cool, green, dew-freshened earth that was so sweet and full of peace, after the scorched and blood-stained plains, whose sun was as flame, and whose breath was as pestilence.
Through its own groveling abjections, however, it long ago sunk to an autocracy with the Speaker in the rôle of autocrat. It sold its birthright for no one knows what mess of pottage to pass its slavish days beneath a tyranny of the gavel. The Speaker settles all things. No measure is proposed, no bill passes, no member speaks except by the Speaker's will.
The lot pronounced against them. I do not believe that it had entered the heart of either of them to understand how necessary they had become to each other, and when they saw that all was over it was a sad awaking. For a little while it was with both as if they had madly thrown a birthright away; for, though they had faith, they were not yet perfect in it.
I did not know he was there until he said: "Step back and let me do that, Bab." He was all dressed, but very firm. So I let him and he looked terrible when finished. "Now" he said at last, "jump in and take me somewhere near the Club. And tell me how this happened." "I am a bankrupt, Carter," I responded in a broken tone. "I have sold my birthright for a mess of porridge."
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