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Elsie had crept unnoticed to her side, and as Tess glanced down, the child touched her hand with little fingers, marble-cold. The girl drew away from the suppliant touch, then, lowered the whip and stood considering the baby face. "I hate you worse'n anyone in the whole world," she spat out. "Then, lick 'er," growled Longman, and the other squatters muttered their approval.
The poet concealed himself, however, during the tumult of the revolution; and, consulting the dictates of prudence rather than of honor, he addressed, in the form of an epistle, a suppliant and humble recantation to the offended præfect.
New York looked very good to O'Neil, for this time he came not as a suppliant, but as a conqueror, and a deep contentment rested in his heart. More than once during the last two years he had made this flying trip across an ocean and a continent, but heretofore he had been burdened with worries and responsibilities.
"Isis and Osiris bless thee!" wished the suppliant. Heraklas' lips parted to answer. Should he, who had been blessed of the Lord, seem to accept the blessing of idols? But the beggar turned to another giver, and Heraklas hurried on his way. Before he could reach home, a sacred procession came in sight.
Every one at Rome knew that he was there, but no one wished to meddle with him because of his age and weakness, as he appeared to be deserted by fortune. However, Titus was sent to Prusias on an embassy about certain other matters, and seeing Hannibal there took offence at his being alive, and would not accede to the prayers and entreaties of Prusias on behalf of his suppliant.
"People are not always killed at Tonquin, but I must have new interests, something to divert my mind from " "Fred! my dear Fred" Jacqueline had suddenly become almost tender, almost suppliant. "Your mother! Think of your mother! What would she say? Oh, my God!" "My mother must be allowed to think that I love my profession better than all else.
If you are inclined to become a suppliant, hasten to the Tyrol, and we will search together about the mountains, traverse the poppy-meads, and look into every chasm and fissure that excludes daylight, in hopes of discovering the mansion of repose.
We may leave Attica and wander again; shall I not hang my head if I hear men say, 'Why come ye here with suppliant boughs, cleaving to life? Depart; we will not help cowards. Who will marry such a one? Better death than such disgrace." A messenger announces that Hyllus, Heracles' son, has returned with succours and is with the Athenian army.
In the meantime the helpless victim of ecclesiastical vengeance the poor erring creature, who had dared and sacrificed everything for the love of her seducer had risen from her suppliant posture, and flown wildly madly round to the elder nuns in succession, imploring mercy, and rending the very roof of the subterrane with piercing screams.
The meeting was that of equals, not of a suppliant and his protector. The Numidian king again headed an army of his own, and, after the oath of alliance had been given and received, exhorted his father-in-law in his own interest to join in a war that was as necessary as it was just. The Romans, he pointed out, had been made by their lust for conquest the common enemies of the human race.
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