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He invited all to withdraw their lands and moneys from his charge, and some accepted the invitation. They spurned his parting advice to sell, and the policy they then adopted, and never afterward modified, was that "all or nothing" attitude which, as years rolled by, bled them to penury in those famous cupping-leeching-and-bleeding establishments, the courts of Louisiana.
All she had been, all she'd designed, all she had built within herself and walled about herself, all she had scorned, all that with a violent antipathy she had shuddered from or with curled lip spurned away, all, all betrayed, breached, mined, calamitously riven, tumultously sundered, burst away. She turned her face to the pillow and began to cry most frightfully.
But those who had spurned, and those who had protected, the Thracian, were guilty of the same crime, the knowledge of his original obscurity. For this crime many were put to death; and by the execution of several of his benefactors, Maximin published, in characters of blood, the indelible history of his baseness and ingratitude.
Lord mayors, lord chief justices, and magnates of many kinds were his hosts; he was desired in country houses, and his bold genius captivated the favor of periodicals which spurned the rest of our nation. But in his own country it was different.
The thoughts of William and his heartless wife caused old feelings of indignation to awaken and burn; but when the image of Charles and Florence came up before her mind, her eyes were ready to overflow. It was now that she remembered, with changed emotions, the cruel manner in which she had spurned Charles and the wife of his bosom.
"Rule your words so that no one else hears you say that, bright Lord of the Danes," she murmured, "lest they think you mean by it that the English crown would fit you as loosely, and forget that you are a boy who will grow." The King's mouth sobered. "Nay, a man, who has got his growth." Her little hand spurned the ring that the instant before it had caressed.
He would have hidden it had he known the thought in Austin's clear eyes while he faced them. "I never met a coward myself," Austin continued. "I have heard of one or two. One let an innocent man die for him." "How base!" exclaimed the boy. "Yes, it was bad," Austin acquiesced. "Bad!" Richard scorned the poor contempt. "How I would have spurned him! He was a coward!"
"I am happy to say that I shall soon be in a position to repay you, to reward you. My evil days are over, and I spurn that government which spurned me, for the honor and glory of which I founded that city," he pointed in the direction of Louisville, "for the power and wealth of which I conquered this Northwest territory. Listen!
On the earlier day which I began speaking of I found that I was insensibly attaching myself to an English-hearing party of the personally conducted, in the dearth of my own recollections of the local history, but I quickly detached myself for shame and went back and meekly hired the help of a guide who had already offered his services in English, and whom I had haughtily spurned in his own tongue.
"Has Sister Halsey paid anything for living in the House this month back?" At the insinuation that her money might be justly kept in payment of this debt if she spurned the Church's hospitality, Susannah's heart sank. She admitted its justice. It was part of her character to admit all possible claim against her. The sleek elder, following his advantage, spoke again.
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