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And yet, in every war, their region was infested with iron-hearted soldiers, both French and English, who fought one another for the privilege of ill-treating these poor, harmless Acadians. Sometimes the treaty of peace made them subjects of one king, sometimes of another. At the peace of 1748 Acadia had been ceded to England.
Before he was garroted, Atahualpa begged that his remains might be preserved at Quito with those of his mother's people. Then he turned to Pizarro and made a final request of that iron-hearted man, that he would look after and care for the Inca's little children.
That insensate, bestial determination, iron-hearted, iron-strong, had beaten down opposition, had carried its point. Life and love had been crushed beneath its trampling without pity, without hesitation. The tragedy of the hour was done; the tragedy of the long years to come was just beginning.
Frequent references are also found to wise men and women, and examples are given of their prudence and insight Thus Joab, David's iron-hearted commander, brings a wise woman from Tekoa, the later home of the prophet Amos, to aid him in securing the recall of the banished Absalom.
In vain his voice had called upon his men to surrender-in vain he had implored the iron-hearted Soulis, and his coadjutor Aymer de Valence, to stop the havoc of death. All now lay in blood; and the heat of the room, thronged by the victors, became so intolerable that De Valence, for his own sake, ordered the earl to be removed into another apartment.
He who has received humiliations from the hand of this haughty, iron-hearted governor, may see him now in Cayenne, stripped of all his revolutionary honours, broken down and ruined, and under arrest in his own house. He has four accomplished daughters, respected by the whole town.
Careless of their sufferings, these iron-hearted men merely congratulated each other upon their victory. "Ah, it's well ended, Schell," exclaimed Trenck, "and I rejoice that we have had this opportunity to chastise the miserable traitors. But you are wounded, my poor Schell!" "It is nothing," the lieutenant replied carelessly; "merely a wound in the throat, and, I think, another in the head."
Julian on the floor: but I took the young lady to Sir Abraham's immediately, general, at her own desire." The father arose sternly; his first feeling was to kill Julian; but the second, a far better one, predominated he must go and see Emily at once. "Kind neighbour, thank you, thank you; where's Emmy? take me to my Emmy;" and the iron-hearted veteran wept like a driveller.
Why will you shed my blood, and, if you can, take my life? "'Perish the infidels! replied the Iron-Hearted, approaching me and brandishing an enormous sword. "'Well, then, I am ready for you, I exclaimed, drawing down my visor also. 'Let God be our judge! I will defend myself but I will not strike.
The iron-hearted soldier had not yet disclosed the darker side of his character. He was too weak to do so. The hour of Conquest had not yet come.
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