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MacRae could only see this out of one corner of his eye, for he was being turned gently over on his face. Weak and passive as he was, the firm pressure of Betty's soft hands on his skin gave him a curiously pleasant sensation. He heard her draw her breath sharply and make some exclamation as his bare back turned to the light. "This chap has been to the wars, eh, Miss Gower?" he heard the man say.
He had been born and bred in the most splendid and greatest of empires, and had reigned over it for ten years, but for twelve more, since the time that Dion attacked him, he had constantly been in troubles and wars, during which all the cruelties which he had exercised on others, were more than avenged upon himself, by the miserable death of his wife and family, which are more particularly dwelt upon in the life of Dion.
"A very grateful guest," said Villon, politely; and he drank in dumb show to his entertainer. "You are shrewd," began the old man, tapping his forehead, "very shrewd; you have learning; you are a clerk; and yet you take a small piece of money off a dead woman in the street. Is it not a kind of theft?" "It is a kind of theft much practised in the wars, my lord."
"It is when the people of any country cannot agree among themselves, and so make war upon each other: there have been civil wars in all countries at different times; they are the most dreadful of all wars, because relations and friends are often fighting in battle against each other." "Oh, what a shocking thing!" said Charles; "But why do they do it mamma?
You put me in mind, said Pantagruel, of what is written amongst the facetious and merry sayings of Cicero. During the more than civil wars between Caesar and Pompey, though he was much courted by the first, he naturally leaned more to the side of the latter. Now one day hearing that the Pompeians in a certain rencontre had lost a great many men, he took a fancy to visit their camp.
The late wars have had much more fatal effects on the cacao trade of Caracas than on that of Guayaquil. On account of the increase of price, less cacao of the first quality has been consumed in Europe. Instead of mixing, as was done formerly for common chocolate, one quarter of the cacao of Caracas, with three-quarters of that of Guayaquil, the latter has been employed pure in Spain.
"This cavalier," he observes, "was from the far island of England, and brought with him a train of his vassals, men who had been hardened in certain civil wars which raged in their country. They were a comely race of men, but too fair and fresh for warriors, not having the sunburnt, warlike hue of our old Castilian soldiery.
In time, Paul Pringle and his companions, with their young charge and most of the survivors of the Hector's crew, found their way to the shores of Old England, by which time peace was proclaimed, and men began to indulge in the fond fancy that wars were to cease for ever on the globe.
Yes, there were not merely kings and wars, popes and councils, in those old days; there were real human beings, just such as we might meet by the wayside any hour, with human hearts and histories within them.
Ah, how can I talk with men, be comrade with men? soldiers! It would give me over to insult, and rude usage, and contempt. How can I go to the great wars, and lead armies? I a girl, and ignorant of such things, knowing nothing of arms, nor how to mount a horse, nor ride it.... Yet if it is commanded " Her voice sank a little, and was broken by sobs, and I made out no more of her words.
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