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Veer the sheet!" and strange it was to him to see how swiftly the blood-stained sailors turned from the strife to the ropes and back. Now the cog's head was turned Francewards, and the shipman walked the deck, a peaceful master-mariner once more. "There is sad scath done to the cog, Sir Nigel," said he.
"There is no need for such anger," he said mildly. "The maid's words have done me no scath. It is you yourself who have erred." "I know it," she cried, "I am a most wicked woman. But it is bad enough that one should misuse you. Ma foi! I will see that there is not a second one." "Nay, nay, no one has misused me," he answered. "But the fault lies in your hot and bitter words.
Especially did this view seem natural, when it was remembered that wherever the township system had existed in any fullness or perfection, there slavery had withered and died without the scath of war; that wherever in all our bright land the township system had obtained a foothold and reached mature development, there intelligence and prosperity grew side by side; and that wherever this system had not prevailed, slavery had grown rank and luxuriant, ignorance had settled upon the people, and poverty had brought its gaunt hand to crush the spirit of free men and establish the dominion of class.
"The river has been my enemy," said Tranter, "but it hath been a good friend to you, for it has saved your life this day." "That is as it may be," returned Alleyne. "But all is now well over," quoth Harcomb, "and no scath come of it, which is more than I had at one time hoped for.
"To thrust a handful of steel into the Socman. What! hale a demoiselle against her will, and then loose dogs at his own brother! Let me go!" "Nenny, nenny!" cried Alleyne, laughing. "There was no scath done. Come back, friend" and so, by mingled pushing and entreaties, they got his head round for Christchurch once more.
It was of those she had served and whose future she regarded with such engrossing interest that she thought. She did not dream of remedying the evil. That was beyond her power. She only thought she might save some from its scath. To that she devoted herself. The day before, she had visited the cemetery where her brother's ashes reposed.
Even the sky is not safe from scath blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods. The Shasta region is still a fresh unspoiled wilderness, accessible and available for travelers of every kind and degree.
Thomas looked from one woman to the other, and said, fretfully, "A man canna tak' twa contrary orders at the same minute o' time. What will I do in the case?" "You will do as I tell you, Thomas," said Madame. "You have done so for twenty years. Have you come to any scath or wrong by it?"
All these, and the brig herself, I had outlived; and come through these hardships and fearful perils without scath. My only thought should have been of gratitude; and yet I could not behold the place without sorrow for others and a chill of recollected fear. I was so thinking when, upon a sudden, Mr. Rankeillor cried out, clapped his hand to his pockets, and began to laugh.
These repeated parting words of the crazy prophet stuck in Burr's memory. The ordeal of a legal investigation had been endured, apparently without scath to the accused. The grand jury, not satisfied with acquitting Burr, pressed upon him a written declaration, signed by every member, exonerating him completely. A public ball was given in his honor.
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