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With your energy, and with the natural military talents which I am persuaded you possess, high rank, honours, and riches may speedily be yours. And when Charles V., firmly seated on the throne of Spain, points you out to me as one of those to whom he owes his crown, and as a man whom he delights to honour, I will no longer refuse to you my daughter's hand."
He was in despair when I told him that this was the very person I wanted. But it was too late; he had gone without leaving a trace. A famous artist for whom I sent to ask him whether he could paint me a shadow, told me that he might, but I should be bound to lose it again at the slightest movement. "How did you manage to lose yours?" he asked. I had to lie.
If I thus seem to cry out as one hurt, please remember that I have been sorely bruised and that I do dislike the thought that any son or daughter of mine or yours should be similarly bruised. The women are the true conservators of the race. The men are the wastrels, the adventure-lovers and gamblers, and in the end it is by their women that they are saved.
"It shall be as you wish, Dator," replied Matai Shang; "nor is that all power and riches shall be yours if you restore my daughter, Phaidor, to me, and place within my power Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium.
"'Journeys end in lovers' meetings," I quoted carelessly. "Perhaps yours will end so." "I thought I had done with lovers," said the Boy, with one of his odd smiles. "You're not old enough to begin with them yet." "I was thinking of my sister. Her experience was a lesson in love I'm not likely to forget soon. Yet sometimes I I'm not sure I learned the lesson in the right way.
He knew that his words might lose him a thousand livres; nevertheless he said bravely: "Monsieur le Marquis, it is such men as yourself who make the age what it is; it is philosophy such as yours that corrupts and degenerates. It is wrong, I say, a thousand times wrong.
There is one thing more, said the divinity-student, that I wished to speak of; I mean that idea of yours, expressed some time since, of depolarizing the text of sacred books in order to judge them fairly. May I ask why you do not try the experiment yourself? Certainly, I replied, if it gives you any pleasure to ask foolish questions.
Else why did you shudder away from me, and to my passionate appeal reply with this one short phrase: "Your father will explain"? Did you think any other words than yours would satisfy me, or that I could believe even him when he accused you of a base and dishonest act?
It fell off afterwards, and I saw it through the hole, but of course I couldn't say anything. I thought they'd look after their silly luggage better than that. It was all their fault I was lost." "Tell us how you did it, H.O. dear," Dora said; "never mind about it being everybody else's fault." "It's yours as much as any one's, if you come to that," H.O. said.
I had strolled forward to watch the game, and, after several most exasperating misses, exclaimed, "I should like very much to try; I believe I could do better than that." "Then try you shall, youngster," said Mr Sennitt; "the first shot a man ever fires is often a very lucky one, and perhaps yours may be so. You shall fire the next shot."
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