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Updated: May 12, 2025
On the third night Iseult dreamt this dream: that she held in her lap a boars head which befouled her skirts with blood; then she knew that she would never see her lover again alive. Tristan was now too weak to keep his watch from the cliff of the Penmarks, and for many long days, within walls, far from the shore, he had mourned for Iseult because she did not come.
He returned the look with an impertinent grin, and then coolly spat out a stream of the acrid scarlet juice half-way across the clean, white deck. This was too much for the officer. His face whitened with rage, and striding up to Warner he pointed to the befouled whiteness of the deck.
If a speck of dust alights on me, I don't think myself hopelessly befouled; and if some one I loved made a slip, I should only think that it is human to err and that it's humanity I love." "Humanity!" he repeated, looking down. "Ah!" He sighed deeply. He raised his head. "And if some one you loved killed your Jimmy?" "As you ?" "Yes yes?"
He felt himself for ever befouled. Yet every time he heard confessions he inevitably recurred to that catechism of shame.
But my heart ached most, and I bowed in the saddle and cried "What have I done, oh, what have I done? My secret! my general's, my country's secret! That woman has got it bought it with flatteries and lies! She has drawn it from my befouled soul like a charge from a gun!" For a moment I quite forgot how evident it was that she had gathered earlier inklings of it from some one else.
One is tempted to believe from what one has read of the condition of those districts in the nineteenth century, that those who had them under their power worried, befouled, and degraded men out of malice prepense: but it was not so; like the mis-education of which we were talking just now, it came of their dreadful poverty.
Even had Grattan's Parliament remained, the battle for the land would have had to go forward; for that Parliament was an assembly controlled by landlords who, for the most part, believed as strongly in the sacredness of rent as they did in the sacredness of nationality. But by the Union the conflict was embittered and befouled. The landlords invented their famous doctrine of conditional loyalty.
That Hogarth might be capable of impeachment before a Court of Admirals, followed by death on the block, he feared; and he rolled, groaning, tugging his tonsure-fringe, which, on the forehead, lay a thin grey forelock, thinking: "Guilty wretch that I am! putrid, unwholesome, hopeless, I have befouled the holiest: how richly do I deserve to die!"; and even as he groaned and smote, his secret mind weighed up the chances of Hogarth's action.
In them all may see, who will, how purely and amply I have sought after and cherished the power of the Church and reverence for the keys; and, at the same rime, how unjustly and falsely my adversaries have befouled me with so many names.
The volunteers, too, turned out in force, and no one, looking at their trim, soldierly aspect, could have believed them to be the same miners who were wont to emerge each evening through a hole in the earth, red as lobsters, wet, ragged, and befouled in a word, surrounded by a halo of dishevelment, indicative of their rugged toils in the regions below.
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