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I understand. Well, they are ill-spoken of as enemies of the human race, but for my part I have had to do with several Christians and found them very good people, though visionary in their views." Here a doubt struck him and he said, "But, lady, I understand that you are an Essene." "Nay, sir," she replied in the same steady voice, "I also am a Christian, who have been protected by the Essenes."
As he listened to the tale, there flashed across his memory the words of the dying Athelwold: 'Find out the man who is better and fairer and stronger than any man in the world, and give him to be husband to my daughter. Was there any man living stronger than this Havelok? and could he himself be ill-spoken of if he should carry out Athelwold's dying wish?
'Come, said she, 'it strikes me that, in all this sorrow for the loss of one who died full of years, ye are forgetting in Whose hands life and death are! True words, but ill-spoken at that time.
At these words, the first Philippe had pronounced aloud, the slight difference that there was between his voice and that of the king was sensible to maternal ears, and Anne of Austria looked earnestly at her son. Saint-Aignan left the room, and Philippe continued: "Madame, I do not like to hear M. Fouquet ill-spoken of, you know I do not and you have even spoken well of him yourself."
"The last I will do right heartily. 'Twas but the simple truth, but it was ill-spoken in your presence, Mistress Stair." At this she laughed merrily; and in all my world-wanderings I had never heard a sound so gladsome as this sweet laugh of hers when she would be on the forgiving hand. "Surely any one would know you are a soldier, Captain Ireton.
Once, after being reviled and ill-spoken of all day long in his own hearing by some vile and abandoned fellow in the open marketplace, where he was engaged in the dispatch of some urgent affair, he continued his business in perfect silence, and in the evening returned home composedly, the man still dogging him at the heels, and pelting him all the way with abuse and foul language; and stepping into his house, it being by this time dark, he ordered one of his servants to take a light, and to go along with the man and see him safe home.
Then you are, very probably, conscious you deserve it for my part, I shall only suppose myself ill-spoken of, when I am conscious I deserve it." "Enter Servant. "Ser. Mrs. Candor. "Mar. Well, I'll leave you. "Lady S. No, no, you have no reason to avoid her, she is good nature itself. "Mar. Yes, with an artful affectation of candor, she does more injury than the worst backbiter of them all."
But Lady Carbury might be all the easier converted because she understood nothing and was fond of ambitious talking; and Roger Carbury might possibly be forced into conviction by the very feeling which at present made him unwilling to hear arguments. 'I don't like hearing my Church ill-spoken of, said Roger. 'You wouldn't like me if I thought ill of it and spoke well of it, said the priest.
I am predestined; I have a mission. I will be the poor man's lord; I will speak for the speechless with despair; I will translate inarticulate remonstrance; I will translate the mutterings, the groans, the murmurs, the voices of the crowd, their ill-spoken complaints, their unintelligible words, and those animal-like cries which ignorance and suffering put into men's mouths.
One who tells his story ill, be it ever so important, will tire even the most patient. If you have been present at the performance of a good tragedy, you have doubtless been sensible of the good effects of a speech well delivered; how much it has interested and affected you; and on the contrary, how much an ill-spoken one has disgusted you.
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