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That, in the eyes of the law, he had wittingly helped a traitor to escape, troubled his conscience little. His instinct bade him destroy Del Ferice by giving him up, and he would have saved himself a vast deal of trouble if he had followed his impulse.
But to how great a degree guiltless, how could I possibly explain to the satisfaction of an angry man? I had the vision of him leaping on the horse, while I perused his challenge; saw him fix to the saddle and smile hard, and away to do me of all services the last he would have performed wittingly.
Also, as they passed the sandhills, and bade him look at the meal, meaning the sand, he replied that it had been ground small by the hoary tempests of the ocean. His companions praising his answer, he said that he had spoken it wittingly. Then they purposely left him, that he might pluck up more courage to practise wantonness.
You shall not call him pitch. He is my very own. Mamma, mamma! recall the word that you have said. The woman felt that it had to be recalled in some degree. 'I said nothing of him, Hester. I call that pitch which I believe to be wrong, and if I swerve but a hair's-breadth wittingly towards what I believe to be evil, then I shall be touching pitch and then I shall be defiled.
But where all moral sense of right and all natural action of conscience were gone, there remained in the man an inheritance of traditional feeling, which even Matilde's influence could not make him wittingly violate any further, a remnant of honour, a thread, as it were, by which his soul was still held above the level of total destruction.
She it was who bore testimony to the life, evil, though possibly wittingly or designedly so, of Luella Miller, and to her personal appearance. When this old woman spoke and she had the gift of description, although her thoughts were clothed in the rude vernacular of her native village one could seem to see Luella Miller as she had really looked.
This last-written epithet, which I wittingly introduce, must not be lost sight of by the Christian student. Dr.
"Killing frogs and insects and his smaller brother fish?" "Did he do that?" "No doubt of it. And if I hadn't landed him, a heron or a mink would have done it sooner or later. That's what a trout is for: to kill and be killed." She smiled, then sighed. The taking of life and the giving of it were mysteries to her. She had never wittingly killed anything.
If northern genealogies are any guide, and they are not likely to have reduced the real interval wittingly Rome's empire reached its full extent while Asgard was in building, or before. And Olympus was in building, by Greek accounts, not many generations before the Trojan War.
And so she died of grief for me, poor child. So young, so sweet, so good! She never wittingly did a hurtful thing in all the little summer of her life. Her loving debt shall be repaid for I will die of grief for her." His head drooped upon his breast.
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