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The Count's face grew dark with anger. "The coward!" he muttered. "The dastardly craven!" "But bethink you, sir Count," exclaimed Valdicampo, "that this poor Peppe is a frail and deformed creature, lacking the strength of an ordinary man, and do not judge him over-harshly." "It was not of him I spoke," replied Francesco, "but of my cousin, that cowardly tyrant, Gian Maria Sforza.
And this was the most unpleasant touch of all. But, bless his soul! did not most large families include at least one poorish specimen? he had got thus far, by the time he came to wind up his watch for the night. And next day he felt sure he had judged Ned over-harshly.
Be merciful upon me then; judge me not over-harshly." I paused, and for a moment we were silent. Then suddenly she looked up; her fingers tightened upon mine. "Monsieur de Lesperon," she pleaded, "of what do speak? You are torturing me, monsieur." "Look in my face, Roxalanne. Can you see nothing there of how I am torturing myself?"
"Mistress Margery Stair is well, and well content, as I told you once before. She has no wish for you or me, unless it be to see us well hanged." "Nay, Richard; you judge her over-harshly. I fear you do not love her as her lover should." "Say you so? Listen: to-night I got as far as the manor house, being fool enough to risk my neck for another sight of her. God help me, Jack! I had it.
At times, of course, they were forced of necessity to do deeds which would seem startling to dwellers in cities and in old settled places; and though they waged a very stern and relentless warfare upon evil-doers whose misdeeds had immediate and tangible bad results, they showed a wide toleration of all save the most extreme classes of wrong, and were not given to inquiring too curiously into a strong man's past, or to criticizing him over-harshly for a failure to discriminate in finer ethical questions.
The mothers who slept exhausted while I watched beside their darlings' bedsides will never, I like to fancy, think over-harshly of the heretic whose hand was as tender and often more skilful than their own.
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