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Updated: June 5, 2025
He wears none of the armor of Romans, and he parleys with Punic faith. Yet even now there is a lurking goodness in you that traces its beginning to the old garret-home, there is an air in the harvest heats that whispers of the bloom of spring.
The old age prophesied for her by her poet bridegroom in the early Grasmere days was about her for the nine years of her widowhood, "lovely as a Lapland night"; or rather like one of her own Rydal evenings when the sky is clear over the perfect little lake, and the reflections of island and wood and fell go down and down, unearthly far into the quiet depths, and Wansfell still "parleys with the setting sun."
'Does he? Margaret laughed again. "A fortress that parleys, or a woman who listens, is lost," put in Griggs, quoting an old French proverb. 'Then I won't listen, Margaret said. Mr. Van Torp planted himself more firmly on his sturdy legs, for the ship was rolling a little. 'I'll give you a book, Madame Cordova, he said.
"I ask my wife's permission before giving the answer which is in my heart," said Judge Tiffany. Eleanor broke into the laugh which followed. "But I would like to know about Madame Loisel." "Well, she's certainly a ripe pippin; you've seen that," answered Bertram, his smile on Eleanor. "And I'd like to know what she's saying when she parleys French to the garçons.
You see the native hut where Rhodes often lived and in which the remains rested for the night on the final journey. You pass from the green low-lands to the bare frontiers of the rocky domain where the Matabeles fled after the second war and where the Father of Rhodesia held his historic parleys with them. Soon the way becomes so difficult that you must leave the motor and continue on foot.
"I would not purchase," said he to Marshal de Lautrec, "with the blood of my subjects, or even with that of my enemies, what I can pay for with money." Parleys were commenced; and an agreement was hit upon with conditions on which the Swiss would withdraw from Italy and resume alliance with the French.
Five weeks had already elapsed in useless parleys.
Notwithstanding the secret negotiations with the enemy, which Leicester and Walsingham suspected, and which will be more fully examined in a subsequent chapter, they held a language on that subject, which in the Secretary's mouth at least was sincere. "Whatsoever speeches be blown abroad of parleys of peace," they said, "all will be but smoke, yea fire will follow."
They made evasive answers, and kept the Prophet with them, while Tecumseh amused the governor with meetings and parleys, and went and came upon his errands among the Southern tribes stirring them up to join the Northern nations in a revolt against the Americans.
She had been swept out already into the current of passion, and yet this adorable woman told herself with the confident reiteration of misgiving; "Ah! no. I will be faithful to him who died for me." Pascal said that "the doubt of God implies belief in God." And similarly it may be said that a woman only parleys when she has surrendered.
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