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A descendant of Soames may have as much pride in recalling the deeds of that distinguished felon in the Strand, as a descendant of a border chief has in recounting his ancestors levies of blackmail." Pope might well say "What can ennoble sots, or fools, or cowards, Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards" In South America, the whole population is equestrian.
She thought of him, of his hard fate, to meet with so many bitter disappointments at an age so young; and at last, for no premeditated, no intentional crime, be forced to fly from home and friends, and all he held dear, to wander in a far off land, among strangers or worse, among the solitudes of the wilderness exposed to a thousand dangers from wild savage beasts, and wilder and more savage human beings; and perhaps, withal, be branded as a felon and fugitive from justice.
Jaspar looked up from the floor, upon which his eyes had been fastened, and gazed with a fixed stare upon his companion. "You do not understand me," insinuated De Guy. "I do," said Jaspar, sternly; "I do; you have come to plunder me." "You do me injustice, my kind friend; I come to save you from the doom of a felon." "To put your foot upon my neck, and leap out of the pit your villany has dug!"
What, he, the friend of Plotinus, of Rogatian, and the other noble men and women who were his fellow-disciples at Rome; he, a member of the intellectual aristocracy of the metropolis of the world; what, he to visit a felon in prison! and when he found the felon was a Christian, he fully thought that Aristo had come to insult him, and was on the point of bidding him leave him to himself.
Williams' arms, who sat down with a Jew in his lap, to the derangement of his magisterial dignity. At last he was mastered, and his hands tied behind him with two handkerchiefs. "Take the rascal to jail!" cried Williams, in a passion. Meadows groaned. "Ay! take me," said he, "you can't make me live there. I've lived respected all these years, and now I shall be called a felon.
But no. I was in England where the mouth of the accused is stopped, if he is fool enough to employ counsel. The judge stopped my mouth, as your father just now tried to stop it; and they branded me as a felon. "Up to that moment my life was honorable and worthy. Since that moment I have never wronged a human creature.
You've done about the same, you Richmond; and, of all the damned poor speeches I ever heard from a convicted felon, yours is the worst a sheared sheep'd ha' done it more respectably, grant the beast a tongue! The lady is free of you, I tell you. Harry has to thank you for that kindness. She what is it, Janet?
For remember, though you cannot pronounce her guilty, her sufferings have been terribly severe. Think what it must have been for a woman with habits such as hers, to have looked forward for long, long weeks to such a martyrdom as this! Think what she must have suffered in being dragged here and subjected to the gaze of all the county as a suspected felon!
As Sir Adrian tied up each bag of gold and labelled it with the name of some unknown creditor who had trusted Jack, dimly the thought occurred that it would stand material proof, call for recognition that this Captain Smith, who had died the death of a felon, had been a true man even in his own chosen lawless path.
The master swore a Spanish oath, lifted his hand and fell, beneath the terrific fist of his slave, with a bang that jingled the candelabra. Dolorous stroke! for the dealer of it. Given, apparently to him poor, tipsy savage in self-defence, punishable, in a white offender, by a small fine or a few days' imprisonment, it assured Bras-Coupé the death of a felon; such was the old Code Noir.
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