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"You've a suspicion, just the same," asserted Greg Holmes, dryly. "Possibly." "Who was it, then?" coaxed Greg Holmes. "Was it Fred Ripley?" shot out Dave Darrin. "Will you fellows keep a secret, on your solemn honor, if I tell you one?" Dick questioned. Dave and Greg both promised.

"It seems to me," said he, "that I am your brother, so great is the affection which I feel for you, charming princess. Permit me to remain by your side and to defend you against all enemies." "It will be an honor and a pleasure for me to be protected by a king so worthy of the name he bears."

"The Frenchman was in this place when you came here?" "He was, Signor Tenente, and seemed greatly to enjoy the discussion in which " "And you have not seen him quit you through the canvas, or the port?" "Not I, on my honor; I did suppose him too much entertained to leave us."

Paul so diligently exhorts husband and wife to love and honor one another. Here you have again a precious, yea, many and great good works, of which you can joyfully boast, against all ecclesiastical estates, chosen without God's Word and commandment. The Seventh Commandment. Thou shalt not steal. After your person and spouse temporal property comes next.

As an honor he had at last learned to accept without putting a finger in each ear, the Secretary of State smiled with gracious calm. Less calm was the President of Honduras. He knew something the Secretary did not know. He knew that at any moment a gun of his saluting battery might turn turtle, or blow into the harbor himself, his cabinet, and the larger part of his standing army.

I have solemnly pledged myself to become the wife of the Marquis de Valorsay. "One cannot break a promise made to the dying. I shall keep mine, even though my heart break. I shall do my duty. God will give me strength and courage. Forget her whom you loved. She is now the betrothed of another, and honor commands her to forget your very name. Once more, and for the last time, farewell!

Unable to resist, unwilling to comply, Julian expressed, in the most serious terms, his wish, and even his intention, of resigning the purple, which he could not preserve with honor, but which he could not abdicate with safety.

Assuredly it is deplorable that in the conflict an irreplaceable Rubens is destroyed, but with all honor to Rubens! I am among those in whom the shattered breast of his fellow-man compels far deeper pain.

The character of the gentlemen you have deputed, and still more the character of the Government which deputes them, are safe pledges to their country that nothing incompatible with its honor or interest, nothing inconsistent with our obligations of good faith or friendship to any other nation, will be stipulated.

It was at these minor fountains that we quenched our boyish thirst, each drinking at the mouth of a spout; and when we discovered that by stopping up one spout with our thumb the other would discharge with double force, we played roguish tricks on each other, deluging each other at unawares with unmanageable gushes of water, till we were forced to declare a mutual truce of honor.