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"Dry up," he said, "and listen. I've just come for a bit of a tell with Minnie Parable." Then I forgot myself. "To hell with Minnie Parable!" I cried out. "I don't want to hear nothing about that misbegot vixen." For once Rupert was astonished, but he weren't so astonished as me a minute later. "I'm sorry you take that view," he replied; "because she'll be your daughter-in-law in six weeks.
To run all kinds of hazards, to jeopardize one's self, to rush into the jaws of death these are too often identified with Valor, and in the profession of arms such rashness of conduct what Shakespeare calls, "valor misbegot" is unjustly applauded; but not so in the Precepts of Knighthood. Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death."
"True," said the Baronet, with complacency "it is the shield of Malcolm the Usurper, as he is called. The tower which he built is termed, after him, Malcolm's Tower, but more frequently Misticot's Tower, which I conceive to be a corruption for Misbegot.
"True," said the Baronet, with complacency "it is the shield of Malcolm the Usurper, as he is called. The tower which he built is termed, after him, Malcolm's Tower, but more frequently Misticot's Tower, which I conceive to be a corruption for Misbegot.
That would be at the time he would be lying with Hugh's sword-stroke in his thigh, and calling himself a misbegot, and not fit to be speaking to decent folk. And I minded the pride of him, and kent the very feelings that had sent him away, but I was wishing he could have stayed for all that, for his mother's sake.
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