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Hitherto I have been driven with revolt to what I would not; I was a bond-slave to poverty, driven and scourged. There are robust virtues that can stand in these temptations; mine was not so: I had a thirst of pleasure. But to-day, and out of this deed, I pluck both warning and riches both the power and a fresh resolve to be myself.
"Having brought him to his knees, you are perfectly willing to pass him over to me as a bond-slave. Is that the idea, Evelyn?" "Exactly, Miriam; you are always so penetrating! But don't tell, for the world. Old Bainrothe would never forgive me; and, as I once before told you in one of my savage moods, his enmity is dire satanic!"
And, underlying all, deeper than anything else, higher and broader, lay the strongest principle of her being conscientiousness. Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women. It is the granite formation, which lies deepest, and rises out, even to the tops of the highest mountains. Miss Ophelia was the absolute bond-slave of the "ought."
and gave it to him, and said: "Take it to the palace at Camelot and give it into the hands of Amyas le Poulet, whom I call Clarence, and he will understand." "He is a priest, then," said the man, and some of the enthusiasm went out of his face. "How a priest? Didn't I tell you that no chattel of the Church, no bond-slave of pope or bishop can enter my Man-Factory?
His sole passion appeared to be the accumulation of wealth; unattended by the desire to spend it. He bestowed no gifts. He had no family, no kinsmen, whom he cared to acknowledge. He stood alone a hard, grasping man: a bond-slave of Mammon. When it pleased him, Sir Giles Mompesson could play the courtier, and fawn and gloze like the rest.
"I think," she said, recovering her equanimity after a fashion, "that since I immediately placed the information of this ludicrous contretemps at your disposal, for whatever you may make it worth, I should be promised exemption from the kind of raillery and jokes which Captain Stuart frequent mention of chains, and bond-slave, and matrimonial noose and such things," she paused, rising and looking at Stuart, wistfully remonstrant, for she could but notice how her chagrin ministered to his mischievous delight.
At the word, up rose the bearded man in the Oriental robes, the beautiful, the dark magician, who had bartered away his soul! He threw his arms around the Veiled Lady, and she was his bond-slave for evermore!
"I've been a bond-slave so long," said Lena, "that I'd like to feel perfectly free and mistress of everything around me." She straightened her back and squared her soft shoulders. "So you shall be!" answered Dick happily. "Even of your husband." "Oh, that, of course," said Lena with an enchanting pout. "Now here we are, and it's very late. You must go. Good night." "Good night," said Dick.
Hitherto I have been driven with revolt to what I would not; I was a bond-slave to poverty, driven and scourged. There are robust virtues that can stand in these temptations; mine was not so; I had a thirst of pleasure. But to-day, and out of this deed, I pluck both warning and riches both the power and a fresh resolve to be myself.
"Thy falling tears drop heavily on thy servant's heart. Weep not." "Thy kind heart hath never been the heart of a bond-slave," Claudia sobbed. "But he is dead he is dead!" "Dead? Yea and nay, for of his promise cometh the glorious hope that turneth the waters of bitterness into the oil of joy and sobs into singing." "What promise is this?"
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