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The one nearest the Soldan has done his devoir as bravely as he could; would fain go up to the fire, but cannot; is forced to shield his face, though he has not turned back. Giotto gives him full sweeping breadth of fold; what dignity he can; a man faithful to his profession, at all events. The next one has no such courage. Collapsed altogether, he has nothing more to say for himself or his creed.
I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot, justify it; however culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my 'devoir' to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and to lament my want of conformity to them.
Five women dismounted, five handsome girls whom a comrade of the captain, to whom Le Devoir had presented his card, had selected with care. They had not required much pressing, as they had got to know the Prussians in the three months during which they had had to do with them, and so they resigned themselves to the men as they did to the state of affairs.
I knew what I was doing would be considered a very strange thing, and, what was more, I did not care. Frances knew it also, and, I fear, by an appearance of agitation and trembling, that she cared much. I drew from my pocket the rolled-up devoir. "This it, yours, I suppose?" said I, addressing her in English, for I now felt sure she could speak English.
"C'est le caractere des gens de guerre," said Cora, with admirable self-possession. "Adieu, mon ami; je vous souhaiterais un devoir plus agreable a remplir."
You have censured me in your kindness for being too gentle, too retired; Rothsay has no such defects." "I will pawn my life he has not," replied Albany, drily. "And he wants not reflection as well as spirit," continued the poor king, pleading the cause of his son to his brother. "I have sent for him to attend council today, and we shall see how he acquits himself of his devoir.
"Yet even these are not for ever one. The god flies from the goddess. And a swan Does devoir now, the slave of Leda's charms. "Thus I behold the beams of thy bright eye, And bid my home farewell, I, hapless wight, Fly like the god, fair maid, to worship thee!"
Frenchman and Norman and Fleming; the hardiest knights of Brabant, Boulogne and Anjou; each came to do his devoir in the field. Nor was the chivalry of Nantes backward in this quarrel, but till the vespers of the tournament was come, they stayed themselves within the lists, and struck stoutly for their lord.
"Le sentiment du devoir," Kollomietzev explained. Markelov took both the speakers in at a glance. "Your excellency!" he exclaimed, "I ask you a second time; please have me removed out of sight of these babblers." But there the governor lost patience a little. "Mr.
No remarks were required from me. At the proper moment he asked me to make the tour of the rooms, and offered his arm. As we were crossing the hall, I saw Despond, hat in hand, and in faultless evening dress, bowing to Miss Munster. "Your Cousin Desmond, and mine, is a fine-looking man, is he not? Let us speak to him." I drew back. "I'll not interrupt his devoir." He bowed submissively.
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