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There were, however, some half-defaced monuments in the village church of Craymoor, bearing the figures and escutcheons of knights and dames of “the old family,” as the villagers said; but the inscriptions were worn and almost illegible, and for some time we none of us took the pains to decipher them.
'And how do you read the half-defaced motto, sir, said Bertram, 'which is upon that scroll above the entablature with the arms? 'I I I really do not exactly know, replied Glossin. 'I should be apt to make it out, OUR RIGHT MAKES OUR MIGHT. 'I believe it is something of that kind, said Glossin. 'May I ask, sir, said the stranger, 'if it is your family motto? 'N n no no not ours.
Blurred and illegible often, like the half-defaced inscriptions disinterred from the rubbish mounds that once were Nineveh or Babylon, that law remains written on the hearts of all men. A further point to be well laid to heart is the merciful plainness and emphasis with which the issues that are suspended on obedience or disobedience are declared.
Already he floated above the common world, looking down upon its tortured contours and half-defaced frontiers for the true poet is a fakîr who quits his physical body at the beck of inspiration, to return laden with strange secrets. Jules Thessaly's letter explaining his extraordinary breach of good behaviour had been characteristic of the man.
Probably not one of all those dead knights ever felt half the pride in himself that is felt in him by his representative in the nineteenth century, nor experienced half as much pleasure in gazing at his battered shield with its half-defaced cognisance, as now brings the blood to his descendant's cheek as he looks at the carved stone semblance of the original.
Nothing seemed unfamiliar; the dense walls of box and yew showing dark against a saffron sky, the half-defaced knightly figure above the great portico, the tiled floor of the hall, where a few white rose-petals were scattered.
Thus was hatched in my brain the notion of forcing an entrance into that banned house. I was an idle boy, foot-loose and free to do whatever mad mischief presented itself. Here was the house just across the street. Neglected as it was, it remained the most pretentious edifice in the row, being large and flaunting a half-defaced coat of arms over the door.
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