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But when I saw him fall, if I could have spared one thought from pitying of my master, it had been to exult in that deliverance." I do not know if she marked; but her next words were, "My lord?" "That shall be my part," said I. "You will not speak to him as you have to me?" she asked. "Madam," said I, "have you not some one else to think of? Leave my lord to me." "Some one else?" she repeated.
Thus Dicky was saved a scandal which would have followed and hampered him all his life, and I was spared the fastening of a shameful verdict upon me. Of course, everybody who read about the case and did not know me, believed me guilty anyway, but my friends stood by me gallantly, and that part of it is all right.
Lucy never returned to her uncle's house: she became too valuable a member of her cousin's household to be spared from it, and she is now its mistress in a legal and permanent sense, aiding her husband most efficiently in his labours of love. Fred has long since finished his studies and been settled as the minister of a village church near his sister's home.
Aremberg, notwithstanding his gout, which still confined him to a litter, started at once in pursuit of the enemy. Passing through Groningen, he collected all the troops which could be spared.. He also received six pieces of artillery.
We do not know but from Henry's narrative and the Lancastrian historians that Perkin gave this account. I am not authorized to believe he did, because I find no authority for the murder of the elder brother; and if there was, why is it utterly incredible that the younger should have been spared? 3.
We have not spared you because you deserve to be spared, but because the maiden loves you. It is for this purpose that we will give you the heart of a man, that you may return to the village of the Mahas, and find favour in the eyes of Mahtoree and the braves of the nation.
Sometimes she grew unhappy at the thought that she was living here so well-off and at ease, while her father and mother still had such a hard life at home. Often she thought about Nora, and wondered if she had forgotten to ask the heavenly Father to call her to himself. She could well be spared from the earth, where no one needed her, and she longed to go.
'You have redeemed your pennon with your last gasp, said Ethel, half reproachfully. 'I was determined, panted the boy. 'I don't know how I did it. I couldn't fail with you looking on. You did it by coming. Reply was spared by Aubrey's return, with the coat in one hand, and a glass of ale in the other.
Thank God, this country has been spared that, and in any case we shall never have conscription. Probably the Army will have to be enlarged half a million will be required at least, I should think. That will mean more chaplains, but I should suppose the Bishops will select oh, yes, surely their lordships will select.
The two great poplar-trees, sentineling what had once been the gate of the old Gordon homestead, had been spared through all the industrial changes. When he would have opened the wicket to pass on to the log-house offices, an armed man stepped from behind one of the trees with an oath in his mouth and his gun-butt drawn up to strike.
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