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Can you as certainly and effectually clear him in any other way? Answer me that, as a man of honor speaking to a woman who implicitly trusts him!" She looked him full in the face. His eyes dropped before hers he made no reply. "I am answered," she said. With those words, she passed him, and laid her hand on the door. He checked her.
The men, whether armed or not, thought it more convenient, above all more safe, to care for themselves instead of again taking up the yoke of honor, thereby taking the risk of being killed, or wounded, which amounted to the same thing they would not think of sacrificing their individual self for the sake of the whole.
Still young and beautiful, she was deserted by the only man she had ever loved the being for whom she had ruthlessly sacrificed the welfare of her sisters and every sentiment of honor; to whom she had given up her liberty to pander to his and his father's ignominy, and her home to their desecration.
"I do not see," he declared and this was meant as a keen personal thrust at Walpole "how we can comply with the form of Spanish punctilio without sacrificing some of the essentials of British honor. Let gentlemen but consider whether our prince's and our country's honor is not as much engaged to revenge our injuries as the honor of the Spaniards can be to support their insolence."
But, to make law effective, our kind of government needs the full voluntary support of millions of Americans for these actions. I am fully confident that the response of the Congress and of the American people will make this time of test a time of honor.
We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor. They are early taught that stratagem is praiseworthy.
But he still held it by one of the sleeves, without letting it go, repeating, in a half-dazed manner: "Oh! Why? Just explain ... whose overcoat is it? It is not mine, as it has the Legion of Honor on it." She tried to take it from him, terrified, and hardly able to say: "Listen ... listen ... give it me ... I must not tell you ... it is a secret ... listen to me."
But sullied by his act of public treachery and violence toward the monarch who had, at least in seeming, manifested unlimited confidence in his honor, a secret sense of shame embittered his feelings and soured his temper.
Blood had flowed; insults had been exchanged in due order, and offended honor cried for vengeance. It was fortunate that the river divided the West-Siders from the East-Siders, or it would have been difficult to tell what might have happened.
"What value has life for me?" said Hartmut with great excitement. "My mother has marked me with a brand as of seething iron, and that mark closes every door to atonement, to salvation. I am alone, condemned, thrust out from my own countrymen. Why, even the poorest peasant can fight; that right is denied only to the criminal without honor, and such I am in Egon's eyes.
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