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But in the midst of all the tumult of thoughts and feelings stirring in her, there was the fear that he would now be ashamed of his base-born sister and avoid her. "I am afraid that I have no cause to feel happy," she returned at last. "Arthur Eden knows me so well, and if he had not felt ashamed of finding a sister in me, he would have come to me himself instead of sending a stranger.
He had disappeared from the temple early in the morning, and no one had given a thought to his going, for one base-born, even though of royal blood, had no place at the bridal feast of the Queen and her chosen consort.
"I would have you to know, clerk, that I am a free English burgher, and that I dare say my mind to our father the Pope himself, let alone such a lacquey's lacquey as you!" "Base-born and foul-mouthed knave!" cried the sompnour. "You prate of holy things, to which your hog's mind can never rise. Keep silence, lest I call a curse upon you!" "Silence yourself!" roared the other.
Lady Ann, from dwelling on what she counted the shame of his origin, had got so far toward persuading herself that the vanished child was base-born, that she scarcely doubted the possibility, were he to appear, of proving his claim false, and originated by conspiracy.
Should Hardin die before he marries her, the base-born child is then sure of the millions. She will make her a woman of the world. When the great property is safely hers, then she can trust HER OWN daughter. As to the poor orphan, buried in Paris, educated as a "bourgeoise," she will never see her face, save perhaps, as a passing stranger.
"Ah! villain would you dare?" exclaimed the marquis, his countenance becoming flushed with rage: for he imagined that the robber chief was trifling with him. "Far as you are beneath me wide as is the gulf that separates the Marquis of Orsini from the proscribed bravo yet will I condescend to wreak upon thee, base-born as thou art, that vengeance which the law has not yet been able to inflict."
"Old Tug left no will," shrieked Jemmy; "he didn't die to leave his estates to blackamoors to negroes to base-born mulatto story-tellers; if he did may I be " "Oh, hush! dearest mamma," says Jemimarann. "Go it again, mother!" says Tug, who is always sniggering. "What is this business, Mr. "What is this will?" "Oh, it's merely a matter of form," said the lawyer, riding up.
It was important for Nicky's peace of mind that he should never know he was in fact, if not in law, what so many of his family had been, what he would have thought of as "base-born." And Nicky so disliked Archelaus and all he stood for.... Nicky's happiness that was what mattered now, what must be ensured. Slowly Ishmael turned in his chair and faced Archelaus once more.
"I'll see him hanged first!" cried Mr. Hayes, quite frightened. "Oh, fie, now, you unnatural father!" said the Doctor. The very name of father used to put Mr. Hayes in a fury. "I'm not his father, thank Heaven!" said he. "No, nor nobody else's," said Tom. Mr. Hayes only muttered "Base-born brat!" "His father was a gentleman, that's more than you ever were!" screamed Mrs. Hayes.
I am not prompted by mercenary motives; for I have plenty to keep my wife and children in comfort, nor would I covet aught that lawfully or justly belonged to another; but I do not mean to be cheated, or to allow my wife to be cheated, out of her just rights by the crafty schemes of this Dr. Richard Dudley in behalf of his base-born nephew.
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