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To say, then, that a person who enters into an agreement like this, and is perfectly acquainted with its conditions, knowing that no less than his life must be forfeited by the breach of them, and yet wilfully breaks them, to say that such a person as this is guilty of no offence, must in the opinion of every person of common understanding be the greatest absurdity that can be asserted; and to call that severity which only is the Law's taking its forfeit, is a very great impropriety, and proceeds from a foolish and unreasonable compassion.
"That woman darling, whatever her rank, I cannot term her a lady! "Go on, dear." "I cannot. Sit beside me, here, for a while, and let me feel my arm about you. . . ." They sat thus for a long while silent, while twilight crept over the plain and wrapped itself about the homestead. Ruth was thinking. "If I forfeit this, it will be hardest of all."
I can't give you the check back because I haven't it to give; and if I had, I wouldn't. That would be allowing a fool to make a fool of me. I'm sorry, very, but I can't do anything for you." "Oh, Mr. Cowperwood!" Tears were in Stires's eyes. "He'll discharge me! He'll forfeit my sureties. I'll be turned out into the street. I have only a little property of my own outside of my salary!"
This very night, fill a lamp full of oil, and cover it with a dark cloth, so that not a ray of light can be seen; then take a sharp knife and hide it in your bosom. After the serpent is sound asleep, steal softly across the room, and snatch the cloth from the lamp, so that you may see where to strike home, for if he should wake before you have cut off his head your life will be forfeit.
"Have they told you, I wonder," continued Trevelyan, "how it was that, driven to force and an ambuscade for the recovery of my own child, I waylaid my wife and took him from her? I have done nothing to forfeit my right as a man to the control of my own family. I demanded that the boy should be sent to me, and she paid no attention to my words.
The child lay dead by the stagnant pond, and the men she had led to their death lay choked with the weeds and the slime; but of that he knew naught. All he knew was that his cause was lost, his life forfeit, his last hope dead. Only by his stature and his bearing could he be recognised.
So when, on August 31, the covenanting captain at last appeared, and declared his ship would not be ready to sail for another eight days by which time, of course, Montrose's life would be forfeit he found his bird flown; for the exile and a friend had disguised themselves and put off one morning in a small boat to the larger vessel that was waiting for them, and in a week were safe across the North Sea at Bergen.
"The contractor for the conservatory undertook to erect it in a week, and my only satisfaction is that he is now paying me a forfeit of 500 dollars a day. As for the electricians in this country, sir, they are not incompetent men, but they must be taught to hustle if they are to work under American orders; and I don't quite see how they are to find a job anyways else."
With thy good sword maintain thy country's cause; In every action venerate its laws: The lie suborn'd if falsely urg'd to swear, Though torture wait thee, torture firmly bear; To forfeit honour, think the highest shame, And life too dearly bought by loss of fame; Nor, to preserve it, with thy virtue give That for which only man should wish to live.
"You can save it without expending a single claco; only by giving a grace." "What mean you, senor?" "To explain my meaning I'll repeat what I've said. Your brother's head is forfeit. It can be saved by a hand." "Still I do not understand you. A hand?" "Yes, your hand." "How?" "Grasped in mine united with it in holy wedlock. That is all I ask."
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