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Sir, boast the honour of the News I bring you. Fran. Oh, my Head! how my Brows twinge. Turk. The mighty Sultan, to do you honour, has set your Daughter and her Lover free, ransomless; and this day gives 'em liberty to solemnize the Nuptials in the Court; but Christian Ceremonies must be private; but you're to be admitted, and I'll conduct you to 'em. Fran.
"There is not enough blue sky to make a cat a pair of breeches!" cries Bobby, despondently, and with his usual vulgarity. Sometimes I am tempted to fear that Bobby is hopelessly ungenteel ungenteel for life. He has now taken possession of another window, and is consulting the eastern sky. "A ransomless king, and a trouserless cat!
I propose to show you that sometimes God suddenly removes from us our gospel opportunities, and that, when He has done so, our case is ransomless. "Beware lest He take thee away with His stroke: then a great ransom can not deliver thee." I. Sometimes the stroke comes in the removal of the intellect. "Oh," says some man, "as long as I keep my mind I can afford to adjourn religion."
"When my ancestor, Aymer de Nevile, led his troops to the Holy Land, under Coeur de Lion, it was his fate to capture a lady beloved by the mighty Saladin. Need I say that Aymer, under a flag of truce, escorted her ransomless, her veil never raised from her face, to the tent of the Saracen king?
There is careful abstinence still from all direct allusion to his own case; but there are again the repeated phrases of loathing with which he contemplates, chiefly from the man's side, the forced union of two irreconcileable or ill-matched minds: "a creature inflicted on him to the vexation of his righteousness"; "a carnal acrimony without either love or peace"; "a ransomless captivity"; "the dungeon-gate as irrecoverable as the grave"; "the mere carcase of a marriage"; "the disaster of a no-marriage"; "counter-plotting and secret wishing one another's dissolution"; "a habit of wrath and perturbation"; "heavenly with hellish, fitness with unfitness," &c.
"When my ancestor, Aymer de Nevile, led his troops to the Holy Land, under Coeur de Lion, it was his fate to capture a lady beloved by the mighty Saladin. Need I say that Aymer, under a flag of truce, escorted her ransomless, her veil never raised from her face, to the tent of the Saracen king?
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