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All kinds of problematic notions beset him. She was cold as ice, she hated talk about love, and she was branded by the world. A rumour spread that reached Mrs. Doria's ears. She rushed to Adrian first. The wise youth believed there was nothing in it. She sailed down upon Richard. "Is this true? that you have been seen going publicly about with an infamous woman, Richard?
Although, in the earlier contest, mutual animosities had been so keen that the prisoners on either side had been contumeliously branded , it was, perhaps, the festive and easy manner in which the siege was afterward carried on, that, mitigating the bitterness of prolonged hostilities, served to procure, at last, for the Samians articles of capitulation more than usually mild.
But, admitting the propriety of additional burdens on the people, it was contended that other sources of revenue less exceptionable and less odious than this might be pointed out. The duty was branded with the hateful epithet of an excise, a species of taxation, it was said, so peculiarly oppressive as to be abhorred even in England, and which was totally incompatible with the spirit of liberty.
I want something more than this cruel kindness. Oh, cousin, can you not see I love you? I love you ah, heaven, how dearly! and I want your love in return." Believe me, reader, I was speechless. I would fain have raised her, have told her, in short, sharp words, that what she was saying branded her as unmaidenly and indiscreet; but I was powerless either to move or to speak.
When M. de Véron, after spraining his ankle, was carried in a state of insensibility into the room behind her shop, she had immediately busied herself in removing his neckcloth, unfastening his shirt, then a flannel one which fitted tightly round the neck, and thus obtained a glimpse of the branded letters 'T. F. With her customary quickness of wit, she instantly replaced the shirts, neckcloth, &c., and carefully concealed the fatal knowledge she had acquired, till an opportunity of using it advantageously should present itself.
The very people who had branded her "adventuress" and hissed her in the streets, now raised cheers to the future Empress of Russia; while the Duke, delighted at such a wonderful transformation in the woman he loved, was more eager than ever to hasten the day when he could call her his own.
And some of them, as we have seen, who wrote or spoke in favor of a well-balanced and potent government were branded by ungenerous men as the advocates of royalty and aristocracy, and held up to the people as traitors to republicanism, and fit subjects for the finger of scorn to point at.
A notice had been promulgated that in the "Broadway" the wide, open square from which the great marble road to the Temple opened out, throughout the whole day, the new "Covenant" brands would be affixed. Some few million enthusiasts, it is true, had worn it branded on the flesh of the forehead, but this had not been universal.
He is branded on the forehead with a red-hot iron, and treated like a spiritual felon, because in the highest of all considerations he is led by the noblest of all guides, his own disinterested conscience. Why are nonsense and cruelty a bit the better because they are enacted?
She is suspected; she is accused; she is branded; there is no general faith in her; yet she will hold the torch to-morrow night: and what ensues? Some will move, some turn back, some run headlong over to treachery, some hang irresolute all are for the shambles! The blood is on her head. 'I will excuse myself to you another time, said Vittoria. 'I love you, Signora Laura.
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