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"Oh for the faith to grasp Heaven's bright For Ever, Amid the shadows of earth's Little While!" Jane Crewdson. Sheer amazement kept Mistress Winter silent for one moment after Agnes had made her startling revelation. That her bondslave should have dared to dream of freedom was almost too preposterous for belief.
She told me that she had been the bondslave, I think, for four or five years, of a certain besetting sin, and her first letter was the very utterance of despair. She had struggled and wrestled and prayed, and tried to overcome the sin that had been reigning over her.
He cast a severe glance of reproach at his poor wife, and she looked down in distress; yet she said very calmly: "My lord and husband, you never reprove even a bondslave before you hear his defence; how much less, then, your wedded wife!" "Speak! what moved you to this singular conduct?" said the knight with a gloomy countenance.
So she sat down on the chair, with a lute in her hand, and sang thereto the following verses: Have done with your disdain and leave to make me rue; For, by your life, my heart to you was ever true! Have ruth on one distraught, the bondslave of your love, Sorry and sick and full of longings ever new.
'Love, says blackguard Iago, 'is a lust of the blood and a permission of the will. Well, one-and-twenty made his dreams even out of such poor material. The westward train boomed past, invisible from first to last in the smoke-cloud. She made Paul her bondslave. She intoxicated him with a touch, and sobered him with a face of sudden marble.
Now for the first time he realized that during all that past time, when he had been living as a poor and wretched bondslave in Esthonia, he had held this glorious birthright.
"Go on," interrupted his uncle; "pray go on." "All right; I am going. That is not all: you actually avail yourself of a disgraceful trick to entrap this unfortunate girl into an agreement, whereby she becomes a literary bondslave for five years!
I did this deliberately, having found out by hard experience that money was the bondslave of lust, and rank the breastplate of inanity. Had I taken my wife to England I must have retained my wretched panoply; but England also I renounced, and that also deliberately. I shall take leave to close my relation with a few words upon my choice of life.
John Mackenzie, schoolmaster, had been a bondslave of books in that country for four obscure, well-nigh profitless years, and he was done with them for a while. The less a sheepman knew about books, the more he was bound to know about sheep, for sheep would be the object and aim of his existence.
Even Reas the bonder himself, who had many a time flogged him for his disobedience and idleness, and who now watched him riding downward to the ships, did not recognize his former bondslave in the handsome and gaily attired young warrior.
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