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Yet 'tis no more known in the world than the cabala of the Jews, the more's the pity; and therefore 'tis not detested, chastised, and punished as 'tis fit it should be.
It required the aid of every friend I had in Quebec to secure me card of admission to the ball tonight." "You attend, Monsieur?" "Unless they bar me at the sword point. Know you why I made the effort?" "No, Monsieur." "Your promise to be present. I had no wish otherwise." I felt the flush deepen on my cheeks and my eyes fell. "'Tis most kind of you to say so, Monsieur," was all I could falter.
"I wish," said Unity, "that I had the ordering of the universe for just one hour! Then Christians would become Christian, and you wouldn't have to meet your husband outside the gates of home." The other laughed a little. "Oh, Unity, Christians won't be Christian, and even as it is, 'tis sweet to be at home! Until you go away to Greenwood, you'll not know how dear was Fontenoy!
And this treasure is so marvellous well hid that without me it shall lie unfound till the trump of doom. But now, since we are brethren and comrades, needs must I share with thee the treasure and the secret of it." "No, no, Adam!" says I. "Keep it to yourself, I'll none of it." "Share and share!" says he. "'Tis the law of the Coast." "None the less I want nought of it."
Yet see thou how Christ took the same. And He knew, as we cannot know, what is Hell." "The good Lord keep us!" ejaculated Agnes fervently. "Amen!" responded the Black Friar. "`He shall keep the feet of His saints. It is not we that keep ourselves. 'Tis not we that hold Him, no more than the babe holdeth himself in his mother's arms.
The fair land of France is yet far away." Roland blew his horn a third time, and when the King heard it he said, "He that blew that horn drew a deep breath." And Duke Naymes cried out, "Roland is in trouble; on my conscience he is fighting with the enemy. Some one has betrayed him; 'tis he, I doubt not, that would deceive you now.
I would not, nevertheless, for fear of failing on this side, that a man should not know himself aright, or think himself less than he is; the judgment ought in all things to maintain its rights; 'tis all the reason in the world he should discern in himself, as well as in others, what truth sets before him; if it be Caesar, let him boldly think himself the greatest captain in the world.
These last words of the Queen-Dauphin gave Madam de Cleves a sort of uneasiness very different from that which she had a few minutes before. "I can easily come into Monsieur d'Anville's opinion," answered she; "and 'tis very probable, Madam, that nothing less than a Princess of your merit could make him despise the Queen of England."
"Nay, nay," interrupted Dorothy, "you suspected the smith at first." "Well, Doll, it makes no matter of difference if I did. 'Tis the old witch, sure enough, and she will either hang or drown for it, I swear." "Not so fast, either though, worthy knight," interrupted Stanley.
Should the "Emu" prove to be one of these, even if I were not hove overboard, I might be sold as a slave in the Spanish possessions, perhaps to labour in the mines among the hapless Indians, who are thus employed by their cruel taskmasters. "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," and I should have been much less anxious had I not heard so much about such things.
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