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They had sat together out on the verandah, and she had given him a rose. "A rose for constancy," she said, as he held it in his hand and inhaled the perfume. "You deserve it." "Shall my constancy be rewarded?" he asked eagerly. "What a handsome boy you are!" she laughed. "I wonder will it be rewarded?" "Why do you tease me?" he asked. "If you could read my heart ?" "I can read it in your eyes.
During the intervals of repose from the rack he conversed with ease, and even eloquence, answering all questions addressed to him with apparent sincerity. His constancy in suffering so astounded his judges that they believed him supported by witchcraft. "Ecce homo!" he exclaimed, from time to time, with insane blasphemy, as he raised his blood-streaming head from the bench.
Georgiana was older and graver, and less fascinating to the other girls, but between her and me there grew up the warmest friendship, which proved lifelong in its constancy. "Catherine and Georgiana were reading 'Virgil' when I came to the school.
Which when they did, the saint, as he was thereto accustomed in his words and in works, said, "I thank him." And again Darius demanded what Patrick had this time said: and hearing that even then he had only spoken as before, "I thank him," and admiring and understanding his firmness, pronounced he the saint to be a man of consummate constancy, and that the word of his mouth was most excellent.
But the thoughts of death now overcame the constancy of Claudio's temper, and terrors, such as the guilty only at their deaths do know, assailing him, he cried out, "Sweet sister, let me live! The sin you do to save a brother's life, nature dispenses with the deed so far, that it becomes a virtue." "O faithless coward!
"It fits her so absolutely," I answered with decision. "But Revenge would fit her, too, wouldn't it? That's sweet," he grinned. "Or Constancy," the professor smiled, for once becoming inspired as he threw off his grouch. "Try Ignorance!" This again from Tommy, who made an attempt to look blissful and only succeeded in making himself ridiculous, I thought.
She suggested that instead of making rash vows of celibacy, which would only show forlorn constancy, Miss Hunter should abide by her first spirited declaration, never to wear the willow for any man; and that the best way to assert her own dignity would be to marry as soon as possible. After having given this consolatory advice, Mrs. Beaumont left the young lady's grief to wear itself out.
"But these only prove, my liege, the existence of a former passion nothing more," remarked Suffolk, after he had scanned them. "But she vows eternal constancy to him!" cried Henry; "says she shall ever love him says so at the time she professes devoted love for me! How can I trust her after that?
When we returned from an absence of nearly two years, Calvin welcomed us with evident pleasure, but showed his satisfaction rather by tranquil happiness than by fuming about. He had the faculty of making us glad to get home. It was his constancy that was so attractive.
When the merchant saw her, and thought of the tenderness she had shown him in his captivity, and of her constancy, his heart was moved, and he ran down into the street; and she saw him coming, and with a great cry fainted in his arms. This merchant and this Saracen lady had one son, THOMAS A BECKET. He it was who became the Favourite of King Henry the Second.
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