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Paul Douglass was next called to the stand, and required to give his testimony in regard to the handwriting. Paul looked at the piece of paper that was placed before him, and he was sorely tempted. How could he swear to the handwriting unless he had actually seen the hand write it? he asked himself. He looked at his brother.
That accounts for your agitation, for the fact that you have been drinking. Cowardly scoundrel, what have you to say to this!" "What are you going to do?" Richford asked sullenly. "Unless you release me here and now," Beatrice cried, "I swear by Heaven that I am going to tell the truth!"
We have oblished ourselves by our subscription already; what then needs us to obleish ourselves over again by our oath? Ans. It's true, I grant, many of you has subscribed it already, and so ye are bound; but now ye are to swear also, that so through abundance of bands to God ye may know yourselves to be the more bound to Him.
"Ah, Colonel," said she, sadly, "I see where your heart really is!" "With you, Miss 'Lethe, always with you," he urgently assured her; but there was pleading in his eyes which really was pitiful. "Remember your solemn promise." "But one little race," he begged. "That wouldn't count, would it? And then swear off forever."
'Swear me this, said the stranger, 'that upon pain of thy life thou leave my lady La Belle Isoude, and come not unto her ever again, and for a year and a day thou shalt bear no armour. Promise me this, or here shalt thou die! 'I swear it, said Sir Palomides, 'but I am for ever shamed. In his rage Sir Palomides cut off his armour and threw it from him and fled away on his horse.
"Now, Cain Ball," said Gabriel restlessly, "can you swear in the most awful form that the woman you saw was Miss Everdene?" "Cain Ball, you be no longer a babe and suckling," said Joseph in the sepulchral tone the circumstances demanded, "and you know what taking an oath is.
Further, I swear to you by my head and honour, that no finger shall be laid upon you till he is gone by, and that no pursuit of him shall be attempted. Now choose." Again there was silence for a while. Then Elissa spoke in a broken voice. "King Ithobal, I have chosen.
"But that's all over now," I said. "Is it? By the Lord God I swear it isn't, though!" said Martin, and his face was so fierce that it made me afraid. I hadn't, though. The brute! The bully! Nearly two years had passed since the debt was incurred, but I thought a Christian world could not go on a day longer until I had paid it back with interest.
"Sure you would, and Steelman would have witnesses a-plenty to swear the old man had just drapped in to see if they couldn't talk things over and make a settlement of their troubles." "All right. What's yore programme, then?" asked Bob. "Darned if I know. Say we scout the ground over first."
Really it was so, I swear it! There's no use denying it, the young fellows of position who are on friendly terms with her are terribly lucky!" His eyes had brightened and he turned towards Gervaise who was standing in the rear of the shop wiping a dish. "Yes, she was in a carriage, and wore such a stylish dress!
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