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The thing was done and I must pay the price hereafter, content to reflect that I had trespassed against no one but myself.
For that reason she never spoke, either with her father or with Bertram, about the sad and painful past, about the errors and disappointments of her youth; and neither of them in their pure and indulgent love ever trespassed on the silence which Elise had spread over her sorrow.
He looked Henry Catsrider straight in the face, as if they had never known each other, as if he had never trespassed against him. The headsman planted himself in front of the sheriff and said: "'They have called me, and I have come!" Valentine, with perfect sangfroid, completed the quotation: "'I have sprung from the dust of an accursed earth."
"'We have trespassed," he murmured dreamily, "'we have been faithless, we have robbed, we have spoken basely, we have committed iniquity, we have wrought unrighteousness " "Since the rational world discarded the superstitions of religion halfacentury ago," I said, "we have learned that good and evil are relative terms; without meaning, actually."
But what is chiefly instructive in this occurrence is the inevitableness, which it shares in common with the great majority of cases where civilized and highly organized peoples have trespassed upon the technical rights of possession of the previous occupants of the land of which our own dealings with the American Indian afford another example.
"You see I went where you told me," said Van, "and I've brought some back as I promised. This shot has got to go before breakfast and breakfast is just about ready." "For God's sake give a man a chance," implored the man who had trespassed in the night. "I'll move the shack to-morrow." "You won't have to," Van informed him, "but you'd better move your meat to-day."
At any rate, we "trespassed" upon it at all hours of day and night, and many a time have I ripped my clothes on the sharp points of those palings in my breathless haste to escape some real or fancied pursuit by one in authority.
Burns wheeled upon him. "What's that you say?" The other proceeded with evident effort, laying his head back against the tree-trunk again. "I am as grateful to you and Mrs. Burns as a man can possibly be, so grateful that I can't put it into words " "Don't try. Go on to something more important." "I have trespassed on your hospitality " "Don't use hackneyed phrases like that.
"And die in the Mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron, thy brother died in Mount Hor; "Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
Dicky's eyes twitched slightly, but he answered with coolness, thrusting his elbow into the cushions and smoking hard: "But, no, he is not dead. Selamlik Pasha has as great an instinct for a bargain as for revenge. Also Selamlik Pasha would torture before he kills. Is it not so?" "What is your wish?" "That the man be set free, Excellency." "He has trespassed. He has stolen his way into the harem.
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