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We bitterly hate all who humble us, despise us, trample upon us, and in any way ill-use us. But afterwards, when we have become men, men in experience of this life, and, especially, of ourselves in this life; after we gain some real insight and attain to some real skill in the life of the heart, we come round to forgive those we once hated. We have come now to see why they did it.
That's being a trump, that is; and we two's shipmates after this here." Old Brownsmith did not speak, and Ike went on: "I say, master, what a bad un you do think me! I'd ha' hated myself as long as I lived, and never forgive myself, if I'd done such a thing. Look ye here my monkey's up now, master did yer ever know me ill-use the 'orses?" "No, Ike," said Old Brownsmith shortly. "Never once.
I am a magistrate; and I have my prosecutor and my witness of the assault ready whenever I choose to call them. I can fine or imprison you, which I please. You know the public; you know what they think of people who ill-use helpless children.
But whether the King wants men or whether he doesn't, I just hate Eben so much that if he wanted to escape back to his wife and asked me to help him I'd do it; and just the same, if the smugglers had caught that young middy and were going to ill-use him kill him perhaps why, I'd help him too.
What has this poor lamb done that you bring this misery upon her? I will unravel the meshes of these intrigues. I will burst asunder these iron chains of prejudice. Stay, oh, stay! Whither are you going? Father! Mother! He deserts us in this fearful hour! The president is coming hither? He will ill-use my child! He will ill-use us all, and yet, major, you are going to leave us. Leave us.
"I am not condemning you for this, Monsieur Baptistin; but let your profits end here. It would be long indeed ere you would find so lucrative a post as that you have now the good fortune to fill. I neither ill-use nor ill-treat my servants by word or action. An error I readily forgive, but wilful negligence or forgetfulness, never.
"Aunt did my father ill-use my mother, and my aunt her husband?" said Jude abruptly, sitting down by the fire. She raised her ancient eyes under the rim of the by-gone bonnet that she always wore. "Who's been telling you that?" she said. "I have heard it spoken of, and want to know all." "You med so well, I s'pose; though your wife I reckon 'twas she must have been a fool to open up that!
A prince, Lord of the Red Castle, happened at that moment to pass by, and inquired as to the cause of such treatment, for it horrified him that a mother should so ill-use her child. "Why should I not punish her?" answered the woman. "The idle girl can do nothing but spin hemp into gold thread." "Really?" cried he. "Does she really know how to spin gold thread out of hemp?
'She does not beat you? said Cousin Monica, with an incipient frenzy in her face that made me love her. 'Oh no! 'Nor ill-use you in any way? 'No. 'Upon your honour and word, Maud? 'No, upon my honour. 'You know I won't tell her anything you say to me; and I only want to know, that I may put an end to it, my poor little cousin.
If a girl were to be subjected to such treatment as this when she herself had been so firm, so discreet, so decided, then indeed it would be unfit that a girl should trust herself with a man. She had never thought that he had been such a one as that, to ill-use her, to lay a hand on her in violence, to refuse to take an answer.