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Yes, I repeat," he added, with a change of voice, "I never committed a crime in my life, I have never even been accused of one, never had an action of crim. con. of seduction against me. I know how to manage such matters better. I was forced to carry off this girl, because I had no other means of courting her. To court her is all I mean to do now.
He did not finish, but his face assumed an expression of incredulous irony. "I swear to you, Monsieur," said Octave, with increasing emotion, "that she is above all seduction and should be sheltered from all insult; I swear to you What oath can I take that you will believe?
I appeal to the justice and humanity of the jury a body of men, whose private judgment must be allowed to modify laws, that must be unjust, because definite rules can never apply to indefinite circumstances and I deprecate punishment upon the man of my choice, freeing him, as I solemnly do, from the charge of seduction.
Now all's explained! Rise up! you loved him I have pardoned you I have forgotten all. Now, princess, rise. EBOLI. No, no; a foul confession still remains. I will not rise, great queen, till I QUEEN. Then speak! What have I yet to hear? EBOLI. The king! Seduction! Oh, now you turn away. And in your eyes I read abhorrence. Yes; of that foul crime I charged you with, I have myself been guilty.
The Italian of to-day does not willingly emigrate, is tempted by no seduction of better fortune in any foreign clime. And so in all ages the swarming populations have clung to these shores, filling all the coasts and every nook in these almost inaccessible hills with life.
Sir, the spirit of union is particularly liable to temptation and seduction in moments of peace and prosperity. In war, this spirit is strengthened by a sense of common danger, and by a thousand recollections of ancient efforts and ancient glory in a common cause.
Archie persists in his good resolution of avoiding further conduct compromising to young Kirstie's good name. Taking advantage of the situation thus created, and of the girl's unhappiness and wounded vanity, Frank Innes pursues his purpose of seduction; and Kirstie, though still caring for Archie in her heart, allows herself to become Frank's victim.
Instead of that, memory tempted the soul, by a kind of magical seduction, to dwell only upon what was sweet and beautiful in the past, thereby emphasising and heightening the sense of dissatisfaction with the present. Was it true that the very days that were then passing, those sober, uneventful days, would at some future time be touched by the same reluctant, pathetic quality of recollection?
If Paul needed something to keep him humble when favored with revelations, why not Abram? Abram was then in the body compassed with infirmity liable to temptation, and prone to seduction. God knew his state corrected him therefore, to give him a sense of demerit, when he received him into covenant and engaged to be his God.
"They are called, in heraldry, LAQUEI AMORIS, or LACS D'AMOUR," said Mumblazen. "It is in that I require your aid, my friends," said Tressilian. "I am resolved to accuse this villain, at the very foot of the throne, of falsehood, seduction, and breach of hospitable laws. The Queen shall hear me, though the Earl of Leicester, the villain's patron, stood at her right hand."
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