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But they had a maidservant, forty years of age, Anna van den Hove by name, who was staunch in that reformed faith in which she had been born and bred. The Jesuits denounced this maid-servant to the civil authority, and claimed her condemnation and execution under the edicts of 1540, decrees which every one had supposed as obsolete as the statutes of Draco, which they had so entirely put to shame.
"Margaret's fault? Oh no, Lady Ashley. It was not Margaret's fault any more than mine. We were both not very not very respectful, perhaps, but I was, if anything, much worse than Margaret. And she shared my fate with me; she left when I did." "You are a staunch friend, I see. And are you friendly with her still?" "Oh yes," said Janetta, with enthusiasm. "She is so good so kind so beautiful!
There's something pleasant about his stiff courtesy and his staunch Toryism; for he fully believes in it, and acts up to his belief. A true English gentleman, and I respect him." "Yet, John, Norton Bury calls you a democrat." "So I am, for I belong to the people. But I nevertheless uphold a true aristocracy the BEST MEN of the country, do you remember our Greeks of old?
And then, if I succeed, and if Pitman is staunch there's nothing to do but find a venal doctor; and that ought to be simple enough in a place like London. By all accounts the town's alive with them. It wouldn't do, of course, to advertise for a corrupt physician; that would be impolitic.
She reiterated her statement that whereas the Arundells were staunch old English Catholics, Burton professed no religion at all, and declared that his conversation and his books proclaimed him an Agnostic. Nor is it surprising that she remained obdurate, seeing that the popular imagination still continued to run riot over his supposed enormities.
"Please your honor," observed Steen, "I have a charge to make against George Johnston." "A charge, Steen what is it? You are a staunch, steady fellow, I know; what is this charge?" "Why, sir, we met a suspicious character on the old bridle road beyond Reilly's, and he refused to take him prisoner."
He ran up to him, bestrode him, and covered him with his shield; then two of his staunch comrades, Mecisteus son of Echius, and Alastor, stooped down, and bore him away groaning heavily to the ships. But Idomeneus ceased not his fury. He kept on striving continually either to enshroud some Trojan in the darkness of death, or himself to fall while warding off the evil day from the Achaeans.
To sum them up, they were dandies, of the kind who join the Young Turk Party and believe the New Era can be distilled of talk and tricks; and they looked like mean animals compared to that staunch conservative Narayan Singh, who, nevertheless, is not without his own degree of subtlety. "I call this awful!"
"Would you allow your friends to continue fighting alone for all you love, because you happened to be in safe and pleasant circumstances yourself?" she asked. Then she added ingenuously: "I have heard you say of one that was strong of will and staunch to his purpose, that he was a regular Briton.
He was as firm a Roman Catholic as ever, and as staunch an advocate for the Stuarts and the divine right of kings; but his religion almost amounted to asceticism, and the conduct of those with whom he had been brought in such close contact at St. Germains would little bear the inspection of a stern moralist.
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