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Even Tostig recognised the superiority of his brother; and after a strong struggle between baffled rage and covetous ambition, yielded to him, as to a father. "Depart to thy home, my brother," said Earl Harold to Tostig, "and grieve not that Algar is preferred to thee. For, even had his claim been less urgent, ill would it have beseemed us to arrogate the lordships of all England as our dues.
Heaven knows, fame is apt enough to do, except in giving their just dues to those who are in high trusts, thou didst conduct thyself in that affair, Maso, like a loyal and well-taught mariner: but the honorable châtelain has well remarked, that holy justice must have way before all other things.
These secret reunions ceased after a few months, for there was no more corn in the crib, in other words, a majority of the "Horses" were unable to pay their dues. Did these chimerical dreams serve to distract Balzac's thoughts from the realities, or did he believe that he possessed some occult means of dominating society? Perhaps it was something of both. His material situation had become worse.
Up rose at once baron and merchant; and when at last their spokesman was chosen, that spokesman said: "William is our lord; is it not enough to pay to our lord his dues? No aid do we owe beyond the seas! Sore harassed and taxed are we already by his wars! Let him fail in this strange and unparalleled hazard, and our land is undone!"
Any one who wishes to engage in commerce inscribes himself in one of the three guilds, according to the amount of his capital and the nature of the operations in which he wishes to embark, and as soon as he has paid the required dues he becomes officially a merchant.
After all, he has secured, to the best of his judgment, the happiness of the living, and, in relinquishing the object to which his own life has been vainly devoted, and immolating the pride attached to it, he has yet, to use his own words, paid his "dues to the dead."
"I know it, you nice, fine woman, you; and it's a darn shame!" "Mr. Haas!" "I mean it. I hate to see a fine woman not get her dues. Anyways, when she's the finest woman of them all!" "I the woman that lives to see a day like this her daughter the happiest girl in the world, with the finest boy in the world is getting her dues, all right, Mr. Haas."
It is so easy. We will not have to think of dues or corresponding secretaries. We will not have to think of anything, save when, in any theatre or place of entertainment, a trained-animal turn is presented before us.
The big man looked down at him with temper. "Oh, by G d, you must pay your dues!" he said. "Oh yes, you must pay your dues!" "But this is robbery." "Sure it's not that you must be saying!" The Colonel put the skipper on one side. "By your leave," he cried, "one word! You don't know, sir, who I am, but " "I know you must pay your dues!" Uncle Ulick answered, parrot-like.
Matthew, signed with his own hand, should come into our possession, in which it should be stated that "I, Matthew, sometime a tax-gatherer for the Romans, and now a collector of dues for the Almighty, and one of them that are set to ask, 'How much owest thou unto my Lord? have written this book, by the aid of the Holy Spirit; wherein may be heard many voices of the Lord; and lo! some of them have already come to pass, and the rest must shortly be done.
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