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Her influence over her son resembled the fascination of a snake: once within her reach he was unable to resist her; and when in their tete-a-tete she reproached him with ill-faith towards her, prophesied the overthrow of the Church, the desertion of his allies, the ruin of his throne, and finally announced her intention of hiding her head in her own hereditary estates in Auvergne, begging, as a last favour, that he would give his brother time to quit France instead of involving him in his own ruin, the poor young man's whole soul was in commotion.
Still, he could place many obstacles in the way of the fulfilment of the treaty, and declared that the keys of Ceuta must be in his possession before the infante could be handed over to the envoys. They, on their side, insisted on Fernando's release before the surrender of the fortress. So the poor victim of ill-faith was carried back to Fez, and set to break stones with his companions.
But the inevitable weakness of the Frankish states was aggravated by their feuds and reciprocal ill-faith. More than a hundred years elapsed before another expedition of this kind started for the East. The Second Crusade, inspired by St.
The incapacity and ill-faith of those round the King gave the English some time to recover themselves; Bedford and Burgundy drew together again, and steps were taken to secure Paris. When, however, Jeanne, weary of courtly delays, marched, contemptuous of the King, as far as St. Denis, friends sprang up on every side.
No other Protestant left the palace alive but the King of Navarre and his cousin, who turned renegades. 'And she is left there? he repeated. 'Heed her not, my dear boy, began his mother; 'you are safe, and must forget her ill-faith and Berenger seemed scarcely to hear this speech he held out his hands as if stunned and dizzied, and only said, or rather indicated, 'Let me lie down.
That would be true enough if every traveller were honest, if he only said what he saw and believed, and if truth were not tinged with false colours from his own eyes. What must it be when we have to disentangle the truth from the web of lies and ill-faith? Let us leave the boasted resources of books to those who are content to use them.
The bees, when they find that the queen has not followed, will return to the hive, and scold the unfortunate prisoner, hustle and ill-treat her, accusing her of laziness, probably, or suspecting her of feeble mind. On their second departure, when they find that she still has not followed, her ill-faith becomes evident to them, and their attacks grow more serious.
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