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If he had died, I would have mourned him if he had been unfaithful, I would have forgiven him; but a rebel to his King, a traitor to his country, the associate and colleague of cut-throats and common stabbers, the persecutor of all that is noble, the professed and blasphemous enemy of all that is sacred, I will tear him from my heart, if my life-blood should ebb in the effort!"
The military saints resolved that, in defiance of the old laws of the realm, and of the almost universal sentiment of the nation, the King should expiate his crimes with his blood. He for a time expected a death like that of his unhappy predecessors, Edward the Second and Richard the Second. But he was in no danger of such treason. Those who had him in their gripe were not midnight stabbers.
There can be no longer, so late in the history of the world, a need for the old Inquisition, the stabbers Philip commanded."
"Never mind, supposing they wouldn't be stabbers even, Mawruss," he continued, "if you got working for you an Italiener which you just broke in good, y'understand, so soon as he saves a couple hundred dollars he right away quits you and goes back to the old country.
If he had died, I would have mourned him if he had been unfaithful, I would have forgiven him; but a rebel to his King, a traitor to his country, the associate and colleague of cut-throats and common stabbers, the persecutor of all that is noble, the professed and blasphemous enemy of all that is sacred, I will tear him from my heart, if my life-blood should ebb in the effort!"
So long as knight and baron were a strength and a guard to the kingdom they might be endured, but now, when all men knew that the great battles in France had been won by English yeomen and Welsh stabbers, warlike fame, the only fame to which his class had ever aspired, appeared to have deserted the plate-clad horsemen.
'Time presses, madame. Take care! 'If this house was blazing from the roof to the ground, she returned, 'I would stay in it to justify myself against my righteous motives being classed with those of stabbers and thieves. Rigaud snapped his fingers tauntingly in her face. 'One thousand guineas to the little beauty you slowly hunted to death. Two thousand guineas. What!
"But a better thing I did myself," continued she; "the last trip I made to Paris coming back, I set at defiance all the searchers and stabbers, and custom-house officers of both nations. I had hundreds of pounds worth of Valenciennes and Brussels lace hid you would never guess where. I never told a servant not a mortal maid even; that's the only way; had only a confidante of a coachmaker.
Their own clubbers and stabbers were charging out and smashing skulls or piercing abdomens, their arrows rose in all directions at once, and some into whose veins the wurali had struck sprang in the last moments of life on nearby foes and bit like mad dogs.
That we should bring up our peasants to a book exercise instead of a bayonet exercise! organise, drill, maintain with pay, and good generalship, armies of thinkers, instead of armies of stabbers! find national amusement in reading-rooms as well as rifle-grounds; give prizes for a fair shot at a fact, as well as for a leaden splash on a target.
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