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They had played a violent, cruel game with the things of life, and the things of life now played upon them the same violent, cruel game. As they that rise by the sword perish by the sword, just so did these two men who had lived cruelly die cruelly. "Oh, well," was Mr. Pike's comment, "we've saved two sacks of mighty good coal." Certainly our situation might be worse.
But she saw none of them, any more than one sees the windows and the paintings in a great cathedral in the first fulness of reverence. To her this was a sacred place. That grief had lost its poignancy, that youth and health with cruel insistence had reasserted their sway over her life, did not mean forgetfulness, unfaith.
Such restrictions, instead of favouring the lenity of a free government, would be the most cruel imposition that could be laid on a free people, as it would act in diametrical opposition to the great principles of society, which is the preservation of the individual.
'But it is true, and I do not in the least quarrel with you on that account. He has preferred you to me, and as far as I am concerned there is an end of it. You are a girl, whereas I am a woman, and he likes your youth. I have undergone the cruel roughness of the world, which has not as yet touched you; and therefore you are softer to the touch.
"Yes, I sent for you on a matter of great moment," resumed he. "Dry your tears, young Lady you have lost your bridegroom. Yes, cruel fate! and I have lost the hopes of my race! But Conrad was not worthy of your beauty." "How, my Lord!" said Isabella; "sure you do not suspect me of not feeling the concern I ought: my duty and affection would have always "
"Cruel beauty!" said he, in a courtier-like style, to which Rose was little accustomed, "what have I not suffered during your absence! I even remained all night in the wood, in expectation of you, and the queen my mother despatched messengers everywhere, fearing some accident had befallen me." "The queen, your mother!" exclaimed Rose. "Are you, then, the son of a queen?"
'How frightfully miserable I am! said Ella, which was the very admission Miss Flossie had been seeking to provoke. 'Suppose I do see, she said; 'suppose I've been trying to get you to act sensibly, Ella? 'Then it's cruel of you! 'No it's not. It's kind. How am I to help you unless you speak out?
Struggling to the southward after abandoning their ships, they fell one by one, and their lives ebbed away on the cruel ice.
"I really don't see that you have any reason to blow me up as you do about 'poor Cecilia. I do not think that poor Cecilia has had it at all hotter than she has deserved; and when you tell me that I have been awfully cruel to the poor girl, you seem to forget that the poor girl began the war by being awfully cruel to me.
She obeyed. Then he sprang up, and with one blow of his sword he cut her in two. Then he went and found the prince. "Rejoice," he said, "your cruel enemy is dead." The prince thanked him again and again. "And now," said the Sultan. "I will go back to my capital, which I am glad to find is so near yours." "So near mine!" said the King of the Black Isles.
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