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The postulant had to swear on the holy Gospels that she had been unchaste, and no one believed her oath; she was examined, and if her oath were false, she was declared unworthy to be received. Nor might she have brought about this condition expressly in order to enter the convent, she must have well and truly given herself over to sin, before she came to ask the shelter of the cloister.
"Do as you list," was the coarse reply, "but I swear Doll is a pretty lass." "Come here, you lout," exclaimed a shrill voice, as the door opened and admitted a buxom woman of forty or thereabouts. "I have found you at last; come out with you," and she emphasised the command by a smart clout on his head.
The prefecture was hereditary in the ancient house of Di Vico, from whose office the Via de' Prefetti in the Region of Campo Marzo is named to this day; the head of the house was at first required to swear allegiance to the Pope, to the Emperor, and to the Roman People, and as the three were almost perpetually at swords drawn with one another, the oath was a perjury when it was not a farce.
"You're right. I wouldn't. I couldn't. I must have been mad this morning. I somehow it got all beyond me in a moment. I swear to you for the first time! Do you think I'd muss up one hour of his life? Even if I dared? Even if you were to come to me, on your knees, begging me to to marry him? To begin with, I'm older only a year in time, it's true, but he he's just beginning. I'm beginning over.
Any nobleman of the land might be proud of 'em. Now don't swear at noblemen of the land, and ask me what they've to do with your children; you know what I meant. But you ARE so hasty, Caudle. "Now, don't be in a hurry! Well, I think, with good pinching and you know, Caudle, there's never a wife who can pinch closer than I can I think, with pinching, I can do with twenty pounds. What did you say?
"Yes," replied Noirtier with an expression of sinister joy. "Swear, then," said Villefort, joining the hands of Morrel and d'Avrigny, "swear that you will spare the honor of my house, and leave me to avenge my child."
"Lansing Treadwell, swear to me, that you will leave her soul to her own keeping until " Treadwell gave him a long, steady look. "I swear!" he said. "When her hour comes to understand and choose let her be white and pure as she is now!" "I swear it, Sandy Morley." "Then," and now Sandy's eyes dimmed, "good-bye, little Cyn.
The inhabitants of the conquered realm were all obliged to swear fealty to the Empress of Russia. The Prussian army was at this time in Silesia, struggling against the troops of Maria Theresa.
His face was stern with this new emotion of anxiety which was gradually becoming pain; he even forgot how scared he had been at the thought that Eleanor might have opened that telegram. "I swear, I wish I hadn't hurt his feelings about that cigar stub!" he said. Then he remembered Eleanor: "I could wring Lily's neck!"
"I only opened it once, to let them see what a nice one it was, that is all, I swear." But she shook with rage, and got up one of those conjugal scenes which make a peaceable man dread the domestic hearth more than a battlefield where bullets are raining.
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