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He is careful, in the meanwhile, that his name shall be traduced in her presence that the proudest fortune, the loftiest rank, shall be offered for her acceptance, if she only will renounce him, and the dim hope of his return. A terrible trial, Major Ponsonby! 'Indeed, most terrible. 'But she is true truer even than truth and I have come back to claim my unrivalled bride. Can you pardon me?
"I wish everybody was as sane as I am," said Peg scornfully. Then she looked poor Felicity over critically. "You're good-looking but proud. And your complexion won't wear. It'll be like your ma's yet too much red in it." "Well, that's better than being the colour of mud," muttered Peter, who wasn't going to hear his lady traduced, even by a witch.
He had no horror of slavery, knowing exactly what it was; on the other hand he was falsely accused of trying to plant it in the territories. He was hunted and traduced! Moralists prattled of his lack of a moral nature; envy tracked him, shooting from ambush! He had become rich and famous. He was the first man in his party. He was young and full of power. He might be President.
He did laugh, albeit with an uneasy sense that only a few years ago he would have struck down the man who had thus traduced his friend's memory. "You've been overtaxing your brain in patent-medicine circulars, Corwin," he said in a roughly rallying manner, "and you've got rather too much highfalutin and bitters mixed with your opinions. After that yarn of yours you must be dry. What'll you take?
As for Bacon, he had been in command of the frontier forces but a few days when he sent messengers to every part of the colony to blast Berkeley's misgovernment. The Council reported to the Board of Trade that he had traduced the governor "with many false and scandalous charges."
Some of them espoused the cause of Corneille others openly traduced his plays and were his enemies. He had the independence to correct one of Richelieu's plays without the consent of his comrades, and Richelieu reprimanded him for it. He became disgusted and left Paris for Rouen. He was quite willing, too, to return to the lady who had inspired his sonnet.
He pursued, but we eluded him, and dropped on a quiet sleeping-place among furzes. Next morning, when we took the blanket to the farm-house, we heard that the old wretch had traduced our characters, and got a breakfast through charging us with the robbery of the apple-tree. I proved our innocence to the farmer's wife by putting down a shilling. The sight of it satisfied her.
It has been the lot of the unfortunate aborigines of America, in the early periods of colonization, to be doubly wronged by the white men: they have been dispossessed of their hereditary possessions by mercenary and frequently wanton warfare, and their characters have been traduced by bigoted and interested writers.
Character of Louis Bonaparte. Testimony of Bourrienne. Disappointed lovers. It is a very unamiable trait in human nature, that many persons are more eager to believe that which is bad in the character of others than that which is good. The same voice of calumny, which has so mercilessly assailed Josephine, has also traduced Hortense.
I was drunk and, alas! I was convinced. When I think of that time, Samson is my only comfort Samson and a few hundred million other fools, who like Samson and me have been wheedled, kissed, and duped into misery and ruin. I said: "I do believe you, Mary. I beg you to forgive me for having doubted you. You have been traduced and brutally misused." "It is sweet to hear you speak those words.
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