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I had no mind to stop and fight these men here when there was fighting aplenty elsewhere in the city of Kadabra fighting that could be of much more avail to me and mine than useless life-taking far below the palace.
Remember your oath to the order!" "We do; but he is a traitor, and if you expect us to work for you in such life-taking business as we have lately been engaged in, you must let us have our way in this instance." "Very well; if you will be cautious and commit no others but yourselves I shall not oppose you." "We'll take care on that point." "Remember to-morrow." "Never fear.
Obviously there would be nothing in all of warfare on either land or sea comparable to a collision between two such aerial fleets. The speed of the lighter planes, quick, life-taking duels in several different strata at once, would provide a clash of action, speed, and skill far more beautiful and yet in many ways far more terrible than anything ever recorded in the history of war.
I repel as a calumnious and slanderous accusation against the Catholic clergy of Ireland this charge, that by their mourning for those three martyred Irishmen, they expressed sympathy, directly or indirectly, with murder or life-taking. If an act be seditious, it is not the less illegal in the church than in the graveyard, or on the road to the cemetery.
It makes black devils of some who were once civil, smiling, wholesome men, whether the mischance of life-taking has fallen to them in their duty to society or in outlawed deeds. It plunges some into dark taciturnity and brooding coldness, as if they had eaten of some root which blunted them to all common relish of life.
Ravenel said something humorous about the new Dixie and a peace policy, and John's face began to show misgivings; but Captain Champion explained that the affair would be strictly select best citizens no liquor no brawl no life-taking, unless violent resistance compelled it; in fact, no individual act; but
Perhaps this was only one of many such experiences which had occurred all along the trail from Selkirk, and the pursuer had recognised both the motive and the challenge. Well, if you're compelled to play the game of life-taking, you may as well keep your temper, and set about it sportsmanly with a jest. Even in this horrid revelation of character there was some of the old Spurling left.
But the death man deals is the most merciful. Besides," he added, laughing, "ours is not a case of sweethearts." "My argument is purely in the abstract, Mr. Siward. I am asking you whether the death men deal is more justifiable than a woman's gift of death?" "Oh, well, life-taking, the giving of life there can be only one answer to the mystery; and I don't know it," he replied smiling. "I do."
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