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The ladies rallied the recreants, but their playful sarcasms failed of their wonted effect. In the natural course of things they had recourse to remonstrances, but their appeals were equally fruitless. The delicate creatures tried reproaches, but the boyish cynics received them with a scowl and answered them with a sneer.
Poetry herself deserts us; is it not said that Bacchus never forgives a renegade? and most of us turn recreants to Bacchus. Even the bright fire, I fear, was not always there to warm thine old blood, Master, or, if fire there were, the wood was not bought with thy book-seller's money.
Mile Douxmourie, once affianced to De L'Amye but jilted by him, accidentally discovers the pair and immediately communicates with the gallant's wife, who with the Valiers soon appears to reclaim the recreants. The wife rages at her husband, he at the perfidious Douxmourie, while Lasselia offers to stab herself.
The crushing hail Of rocks and beams goes through the mass, Like the summer-hail on the summer-grass; They falter, they waver. A stalwart form Breaks through the ranks, like a bolt in the storm: 'Tis the Lion King! "How, now, ye knaves! Do ye look for safety? Find your graves!" One blow to the left, one blow to the right, Two recreants fall; no more of flight.
Enguerrand was not one of such soulless recreants, but he had many other places to go to. Besides, Madame S was no novelty to him.
There are those living here I have met them, Clarence," she went on hurriedly, "who think it wrong to lift up fratricidal hands in the struggle, yet who cannot live under the Northern yoke. They are," her voice hesitated, "good men and women they are respected they are" "Recreants and slaves, before whom you, spy as you are stand a queen!" broke in Brant, passionately.
"Son? What son? We have no son." He finished his meal. The scholarly apostle, thus disowned by his kith and kin, was eagerly welcomed by Holy Church, the more warmly that he had come of his own inward grace and refused the tribute of annual crowns with which the Popes often rewarded true religion at the expense of the Ghetto, which had to pay these incomes to its recreants.
Six years of dreary imprisonment had passed over their heads; of their valiant brethren the most valiant had been burned alive; the recreants had purchased their lives by confession; the Pope, in a full council, had condemned and dissolved the order.
Whether or not they enlisted a few recreants, or made use of Alsatians or Lorrainers to help them, it is never-the-less remarkable how free as a rule their written and printed French was from mistakes or German idioms; though their spoken French always remained Alsatian.
The eyes of both had seen; the hearts of both had felt. And now, in the English House of Commons, there were men who doubted and sneered about these things who held an Afridi life dearer than an English one who cared nothing for the historic task, who would let India go to-morrow without a pang! Misguided recreants! But Mrs.
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