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His reception from the conquerer of Italy was such as might have been expected by distinguished loyalty from successful rebellion. He was told that the Congress of Rastadt was not his place! and this was true; for what can be common between honour and infamy, between virtue and vice? On his return to Sweden, Count Fersen was rewarded with the dignity of a Grand Officer of State.
He was not used to waiting for what he desired. He had taken it on the instant, as a rule, and as a rule, his takings had been dust and ashes as soon as they were in his hands. "You cannot have me, Alan. You can never have me unless you earn the right to win me straight. Understand that once for all. I will not marry a weakling. I will marry a conquerer perhaps." "You mean that, Tony?"
"I, monsieur, am not such a fine man as you are, and my small attractions hinder me from repairing my losses so easily as you can " "Sarcastic!" said the Baron. "Irony is allowable from the vanquished to the conquerer." The conversation, begun in this strain, ended in a complete reconciliation; still Crevel maintained his right to take his revenge.
The one thing needful nowadays is money; that is all that the Revolution has done that I can see. The King does not ask you whether you are a descendant of the Valois or a conquerer of Gaul; he asks whether you pay a thousand francs in tailles which nobles never used to pay. So I cannot well send the Count to court without a matter of twenty thousand crowns "
He well knew that even a defeated man might be more of a conquerer than those who triumphed over him. And even as he walked there flashed suddenly into his mind a vision of the Man of Sorrows bearing his cross. Why had he not thought of Him before? he asked himself.
To one whose faith sat lightly upon him, or who valued it less than the tribute to be paid, it only required the repetition of a short sentence acknowledging the unity of God and the divine mission of the prophet, and he forthwith became, though a captive or a slave, the equal and friend of his conquerer. Doubtless many thousands were under these circumstances carried away.
I said, "Oh, never mind," and drew out my puss; tho' I in'ardly wished the gods, as the dinner was fit for 'em, was there to pay for it. I come of a very clever fam'ly. The agree'ble gentleman then said, "Now, I will show you our Club. It dates back to the time of William the Conquerer." "Did Bill belong to it?" I inquired. "He did."
Vane and Hampden slept in their bloody graves. Cromwell's ashes had been dragged from their resting-place; for even in death the effeminate monarch hated and feared the conquerer of Naseby and Marston Moor. He was left alone, in age, and penury, and blindness, oppressed with the knowledge that all which his free soul abhorred had returned upon his beloved country.
The constable paid unwitting tribute to William the Conquerer by crying Squire Hawkins's court open with an Oyez! or, as he said, "O yes!" and the Squire asked Squire Underwood, who came in at that minute, to sit with him.
An obligation was always unendurable to me, and how I shall ever make full restitution to you for what you have done for me this night I do not yet know and yet I should be ready and willing every day and every hour to accept from you some new gift of love. 'A debtor, says the proverb, 'is half a prisoner, and so I must entreat you to deal mercifully with your conquerer."
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