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Had he remained he felt that he would certainly have run the risk of censure for disobeying orders, but he would have saved his ship, and that alone would have proved a sufficient excuse had Commander Allport brought him to a court-martial; which it was very likely he would not have dared to do.
"Shiver my topsails, but this comes of disobeying orders," roared the boatswain, in a voice of mingled anger and vexation. "The Ingians are quite as cunning as ourselves, and arn't to be frighted that way. Quick, every cutlass and pistol to his gangway, and let's do our best. Pass the word forward for the axemen to return to quarters."
And so, as for any breach of trust on my part I promise you the little saucy minx gives it no less name it is quite impossible." "Do not say so, Deborah only go only try tell her to hear me tell her I have a hundred excuses for disobeying her commands tell her I have no doubt to get over all obstacles at Martindale Castle." "Nay, I tell you it is all in vain," replied the Dame.
As he had not resources, like Tilly, for supplying the wants of his army, he was obliged to march his troops into fertile countries which had not as yet suffered from war. Disobeying, therefore, the order to form a junction with the general of the League, he marched into the territories of Halberstadt and Magdeburg, and at Dessau made himself master of the Elbe.
"Don't you know that you are flatly disobeying my orders?" "Squire, I've been here about this place going on nigh seventy years." "If you've been going on a hundred and seventy it wouldn't do that there should be more than one master. I'm the master here, and I intend to be so to the end. Take that manure back into the yard." "Back into the yard?" said Hopkins, very slowly.
Gasca wanted me to go over with him to find out if the treasure was still there he felt sure that it was because he said the brother would be afraid to dispose of it without his help but I had what you call other fish to fry. Afterward, Gasca himself was shot for disobeying a command of the general. If you will help me to get away I will tell you exactly where that treasure is."
How much lay in it, as in a seed, Luther's 'Here I stand, I can do none other. God help me! Amen'; Plymouth Rock, and many a glorious and blood-stained page in the records of martyrdom. Peter goes on to vindicate his assumption that in disobeying Annas they are obeying God, by reiterating the facts which since Pentecost he had pressed on the national conscience.
"No, you won't, unless you break your own head. I want to advise you, as a friend, not to make a fool of yourself. I'm sorry for you, my lad." "Don't talk to me." "I can forgive you for disobeying orders, but I can't forgive you for being a fool. Now, keep quiet, and be a man."
'It is well, said Madame sinking back and fanning herself rather faintly. 'Excuse my fears. But there is an Englishman what is his name? I forget. 'Borrow. 'Yes; that is it, Borrow. And he sells Bibles; and Father Concha, my confessor, a bear, but a holy man a holy bear, as one might say- -has forbidden me to buy one. I am so afraid of disobeying him, by heedlessness or forgetfulness.
But she felt that by disobeying her aunt and coming down to see him she had forfeited the right to shelter under that roof. "I can't go back," said she. "There's a reason." She would not tell him the reason; it would make him feel as if he were to blame. "When I get a place in Cincinnati," she went on, "I'll write to you." "Not here," he objected. "That wouldn't do at all.
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