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"We must submit to these fellows," said Hendricks, turning to his English companions. "But load your rifles, and be prepared to act as I may direct you, though there is, I fear, but little chance of making our escape." The Zulus had now gathered closely round their prisoners, whom, however, they did not ill-treat, but allowed them to walk as they liked.
Sometime, of course, she must marry and have a child, that was part of the fate of a girl with money of her own, and then she should hope to marry a nice man who would not scold or ill-treat her or prefer some other woman that was all. "Dell is just a lump of ice!"
The said Sheikh Khalil also says, "a slave is emancipated by the law if ill-treated, that is, whether he intends or does actually ill-treat him. But whether a slave can take with him what he possesses of property or no, is a matter yet undecided by the doctors of the law." Another. No one can allow what is prohibited or prohibit that which is lawful."
He then sent to Siroes of Persia a similar letter, but here he was treated more rudely. The envoy was received in audience by the king, who read the extraordinary letter and in a flash of anger tore it up. He did not ill-treat the messenger, however, and suffered him to return to his own land. "Even so, O Lord, rend Thou his kingdom from him!" cried Mahomet as he heard the story of his flouting.
She is silent and forbids them not to beat or ill-treat her flesh.
"I won't see you touched by those damned rats!" "'Ssssh!" she warned him. "They can't do anything to me now, except search me for those papers!" "But even that!" "I'll wait until I see you're safely down, then I'll run for the stairs. They've shut off all the lights outside, in this wing, but if they in any way attempt to ill-treat me, before I get to the main corridor, I'll scream for help!"
Only a few days later the husband was taken ill, and day by day became worse. The wife was naturally anxious, and when his illness deprived him of his reason, her cup of sorrow seemed full. For three years he was raving mad, and often, when in one of his fits of rage, he would ill-treat his wife. These fits might come on without any warning, day or night, so that she was kept in constant fear.
Is he afraid that some one will ill-treat him, or is he shy of coming inside the house at all? Beggars should not be shamefaced." To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, "The stranger is quite reasonable. He is avoiding the suitors, and is only doing what any one else would do.
They will kill you, and they will ill-treat me so that never again shall I be able to look my husband in the eyes his brave eyes; but now perhaps they are closed in death!" There was an older, harsh-featured woman who rated the mother for her silliness, and, while we ate our omelette, the room was filled with the clamour of them until a dog outside began to howl.
Roger had made no reply, and the priest had of course been banished. But even this added to his misery. Father Barham was a gentleman, was a good man, and in great penury. To ill-treat such a one, to expel such a one from his house, seemed to Roger to be an abominable cruelty. He was unhappy with himself about the priest, and yet he could not bid the man come back to him.
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