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"Who dares to say," exclaimed Arundel, whose irritation this fresh taunt increased, "that Sir Christopher assumes a title which belongs not to him, or to asperse in any respect his character?" "It will come to light," said Dudley, "in its own time; but tell me now, wherefore made not the Knight, as you choose to call him, his appearance himself?
Peter says: Ye must endure to have men asperse you as evil-doers, and for this reason you are to lead such a life that you shall do no man injury, and in this manner you shall bring about their reformation.
Indeed! do you suppose I am going to lay bare my claim to you offhand? No, let me have the plans here that's what I want!" And he himself is banging his fist on the plans all the time. Then he mortally offended Marfa Dmitrievna. She shrieks out, "How dare you asperse my reputation?" "Your reputation," says he; "I shouldn't like my chestnut mare to have your reputation."
"My liege," he said, "must of course know it is Douglas who must answer to this heavy charge, for when was there strife or bloodshed in Scotland, but there were foul tongues to asperse a Douglas or a Douglas's man as having given cause to them? We have here goodly witnesses. I speak not of my Lord of Albany, who has only said that he was, as well becomes him, by your Grace's side.
"Well? well?" she hastily repeated for he had made a slight pause and a tone of dread, as a shadow of evil, might be detected in her accents. "It was Roland who took the note." Lady Augusta jumped up. She would not receive it. "It is not true; it cannot be true!" she reiterated. "How dare you so asperse him, William Yorke? Thoughtless as Roland is, he would not be guilty of dishonour."
That such a one as this should have the right to lay claim to so holy a title and asperse it thus! She viewed my emotion but made no sign of understanding it. Her words poured forth like a stream of burning liquid. "Do you realize what this girl's living meant?
Then I fell upon that venerable villain Harût, and belaboured him in Bantu, while the audience listened as intently as though they understood. I asked him what he meant by coming here to asperse my character. I asked him who the deuce he was. I asked him how he came to know anything about Mameena, and finally I told him that soon or late I would be even with him, and paused exhausted.
In my presence, no one shall ever asperse her nobility of word, deed, or act!" Bertha's speaking eyes thanked him and encouraged him again. In spite of the manifest rage of the countess he went on, "But Mademoiselle Madeleine now holds a position which needs no champion. She has made that position herself, by her own energy and industry, and the unimpeachable purity of her conduct.
In doing this, he used all delicacy, all devotion, surrounding me with comforts, and many luxuries, and even humoring my insane whim to have the companionship of a year-old child found with me on the raft under circumstances suspicious if no more " "Wretch!" I gasped, "dare only asperse me in thought, and" the menace hung suspended on my tongue. What power had I to execute it, even if uttered?
"It is a lie, sir a malignant, d d lie the jury believe no such thing, nor the public neither," said Marston, starting in his saddle, and speaking in a voice of thunder; "you have been crammed with lies, sir; malicious, unmeaning, vindictive lies; lies invented to asperse my family, and torture my feelings; suggested in my presence by that scoundrel Mervyn, and scouted by the common sense of the jury."
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