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Updated: June 24, 2025
Doubtless each one of us recalled actions of petty tyranny toward leal, loving, helpless dependents, or inferiors in strength actions which now seemed to rise from the irrevocable past, proclaiming their exemption from that moral statute of limitations which brings self-forgiveness in course of time.
This was an insult that even the heavy and peace-loving nature of Edgar the Atheling could not brook. He sprang to his feet and denounced the charge: "None here is truer or more leal to you, lord king," he said, "than am I, Edgar the Atheling, and my charges, your guests." But King William Rufus was of that changing, temper that goes with jealousy and suspicion.
He joined frankly in her laugh. "Nay," he said; "the case is quite otherwise. For she will not say me nay, fair Cousin, because in sooth some day she shall tell me why; and I count myself too leal a knight to tell it if I knew before she shall bid me speak.
I say all this thou mayst do, if thou wilt be as trusty and leal to me after I am dead, as thou hast seemed to all men's eyes to have been while I was living. What sayest thou?"
But wherefore comes not the young lord to Court, Heriot is he comely is he presentable in the presence?" "No one can be more so," said George Heriot; "but " "Ay, I understand ye," said his Majesty "I understand ye Res angusta domi puir lad-puir lad! and his father a right true leal Scots heart, though stiff in some opinions. Hark ye, Heriot, let the lad have twa hundred pounds to fit him out.
A secret's ever safely placed with honest folk and leal; And secrets trusted unto me are in a locked-up house Whose keys are lost and on whose door is set the Cadi's seal. When the girls heard this, the eldest one said to him, 'Thou knowest that we have laid out much money in preparing this entertainment: hast thou aught to offer us in return?
It is true that, for mere Policy's sake, I did go through the Mummeries of outward Mahometans, and had my Rosary and my Prayer-carpet like other Merchants of Broussa; but I scornfully deny that I was initiated, or submitted to, any Heathenish Rites; and I am ready to maintain now, Cut, Thrust, or Backsword, that I was then as stanch and leal a Protestant as I am now.
To him she would ever be the charming child from whom we expect nothing save the delight of her presence. He had come to ask from her, as a tried friend ever ready for leal service, a joyous glance.
One can imagine that the worshippers in that overloaded atmosphere would see strange visions, voluptuous and mystical; the Blessed Mary and the Saints might gain visible and palpable flesh, and the devil would not be far off. There the gruesome imaginings of Valdes Leal are a fitting decoration.
The gate may be strait, and we may have to leave some things outside, but it is held open lovingly by the pierced hand of our Redeemer, and it leads through a happy and fruitful life to eternal joys to that land which the Scottish poet, whose religious ideal was so much higher than his own life, or the current theology of his time, calls the 'land o' the leal. That happy country is near to me, but I hope separated from you by a long, useful and happy life; but let us all alike look forward to meeting beyond the River of Death, in that promised land where He reigns who said 'Him that confesseth Me before men will I confess before My Father that is in Heaven.
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