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Wherefore she loved him very aboundingly for the agony of pain she had one time caused him to suffer. So they two fair and noble creatures were always together in bower or in hall, and no one in all that while wist that Sir Tramtris was Sir Tristram, and that it was his hand that had slain Sir Marhaus of Ireland.
She leaned her arms upon it, her eyes fixed upon the throbbing moonlit sky, her white brocaded dress glistening here and there in the pale light a vision of perfect beauty. And when she began her sighing appeal "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" it seemed to me as if the night the passionate Italian night had found its voice the only voice which fitted it.
After a moment he regained control over himself, and gasped: "Heavens! can God permit such injustice? And you will surrender her to him?" "They believe themselves lawfully married. She hath committed no crime in the sight of heaven." "But wherefore not tear her from his arms and fly to some foreign land?"
As it is the duty of the universe to maintain the round of the seasons, as it is the duty of the sun to vary the points of his rising and setting, and to do all these things by which we profit, without any reward, so is it the duty of man, amongst other things, to bestow benefits. Wherefore then does he give?
She looked like one whose task is done, who feels a heavy load lifted from the mind; but the glance fixed upon Cuthbert's eager face was also one of gravity and meaning. "The forest is no place for thee now," she said; "get thee hence as fast as thou canst." "And wherefore so?" asked Cuthbert, surprised. "Methought the peril ceased with the death of "
Wherefore, as I have already touched, the difference that lay between the gifts of Abel and Cain, was not in the gifts themselves, but the qualifications of the persons.
Wherefore, go thou with thine hounds without the thicket and there abide my coming. And I bid thee look not aback as thou goest, for therein were peril to thee: I shall not keep thee tarrying long alone." He bowed his head to her, and turned and went his ways.
I believe it was by election that we Greeks have given to ourselves a generalissimo, not contented, it is said, to prove the invariable wisdom of that mode of government; wherefore this seems an occasion to revive the good custom of tyranny. And I propose to do so in my person by proclaiming myself Symposiarch and absolute commander in the Commonwealth here assembled.
Wherefore do I adduce this? that we may understand that if we could not by reason and wisdom despise pleasure, great gratitude would be due to old age for bringing it to pass that that should not be a matter of pleasure which is not a matter of duty.
Then he raised his head, and his eyes were Strickland's eyes when Strickland gave orders. "Ho! Imam Din." The fat orderly seemed to spring out of the earth at our feet, crashing through the bushes, and standing to attention. "Hast thou ever been beaten?" said Adam."Assuredly. By my father when I was thirty years old. He beat me with a plough-beam before all the women of the village.""Wherefore?"
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